"The murder also happened because of the judicial map"/ Bardhi: Rama is encouraging self-justification

2025-10-07 11:14:00, Politikë CNA

"The murder also happened because of the judicial map"/ Bardhi: Rama

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Party, Gazment Bardhi, has analyzed the event that shocked Albania yesterday, where Judge Astrit Kalaja was killed inside the courtroom.

Bardhi said that this is due to the new judicial map, which has led to delays in reviewing cases from 6 months to 2 years.

Gazment Bardhi stated that this violates human rights as an uncertain judge cannot deliver justice.

"The judicial map has brought a 6-month delay in reviewing a case, this is the average because there are cases where 2 years have passed. Everything that happened in the Court of Appeal is because of this. Yesterday, a serious event really happened, but more serious are the reactions of the Ministry of Interior, which said that the institution has no connection.

This has to do with human rights, so I'm explaining it at length because then you become ignorant of the law.

"A judge who feels unsafe in the courtroom is unable to deliver justice, so it is important for access to justice that the judge feels safe," said Bardhi.

Bardhi commented on the statement of Interior Minister Albana Koçiu and said that police officers have been removed from buildings with a VKM and now armed people enter the courts.

The MP said that Rama is encouraging self-justification.

Bardhi said that another reason why this murder occurred is Prime Minister Edi Rama's language towards judges and prosecutors, as he loses cases where the state is a party, which only account for 5%, since the state wins 95% of the time against citizens.

" It is the Council of Ministers that determines the rules of access to the courts, we do not have police officers to protect judges, the government removed police officers from the buildings and this led to individuals entering with weapons in their belts and judges being unsafe in the courtroom.

The minister cannot say that we immediately put the perpetrator in handcuffs because he waited outside the courtroom and while he was saying it was me, the policemen rushed to the court.

It is no coincidence that citizens engage in self-judgment, we have seen the prime minister engage in self-judgment on cases in which he is a party and call the judges who did not participate bastards.

This has not happened, not even in Italy, the mafia has not dared to kill them in the courtroom.

We are MPs and we can make comments, but when they see the ministers and the prime minister, they are encouraged to self-judge.

When judges are murdered, the Supreme Court reacts, but when they are murdered verbally by the prime minister, it remains silent.

"95% of cases are won by the state, in the 5% when judges dare they are "killed" by the prime minister," he declared./ CNA