"FSHF is not at fault", Gaz Demi: Tirana Police Deputy Director should be fired, he caused chaos

2025-02-10 13:22:00, Sport CNA

"FSHF is not at fault", Gaz Demi: Tirana Police Deputy Director should

Partizan president Gaz Demi has spoken out after the riots in the derby against Tirana. According to him, the deputy director of the Tirana Police, Idriz Daullja, was responsible for this situation.

Demi says that Idriz Daullja responded with arrogance when security was requested by the Albanian Football Association and Partizan club. The Reds' number 1 calls for his dismissal, saying that the police do not need such people.

Regarding the derby at the "Arena e Demave", Demi says that it is not the fault of the Albanian Football Association, because the "Arena Kombëtare" stadium is being used for the European Championship, which will be held in May.

"To be fair, I'm not even a media guy as you know, but today I'm forced to come out and talk 5 things. The result is very unimportant to me even if we had lost. It doesn't matter, it was a nice draw, it's a celebration of the city.

I couldn't understand, it's been 5 days since the situation. My company, Partizan, from the general director of Partizan to the general secretary have been in contact with the police and they always said no this way or not that way. Directly, I don't know what function an Idriz has. And this Idrizi who is..., I found out later that he is the main person for the maintenance of order in the city of Tirana, didn't ask at all, as if something completely normal was happening. And I have to say that it impressed me. Today I arrived at 10:00 at the Partizan stadium. In every other match, the police themselves bring 2 vans with police when there is no problem. Today in the derby match, until 11:30 there was no policeman. And maybe the situation could have gone even worse, but luckily, our staffs dealt a little with mitigation and other things that everything went that way.

Yes, this Idrizi, I don't know why there should be such people in the State Police. This time we thank Ilir Proda and Filip Cakulin for making this match happen. 10 minutes ago, Tirana requested a police escort and quite rightly so for its footballers. He responded in a rude manner with Partizan staff and with the Federation staff. I don't know what this Idrizi's last name is. I received information and this is the deputy director of order for Tirana. I don't know, I call on politics, the police, to look into these things and appoint people with character and dignity, because it is a shame that such a beautiful match could degenerate into a greater degeneration than what happened today. And as everyone saw, peace was normal, the match ended and everyone was back to normal. And if the police had been there earlier, this gentleman Idrizi, they would have taken their own measures and, like in every match, 2 days before they would have spoken and communicated.

You know what's the most shameful thing? This is even more laughable. I would take as a defendant the person from the Federation and Partizan who were the most committed to holding this match in peace. This was absolutely shameful.

There should definitely be an investigation and if there is an investigation, this Idrizi should… I don't know, I'm neither prime minister nor minister. This guy shouldn't be in the ranks of the police, guys like that, guys like that shouldn't be in the ranks of the police. Mediocre people, incompetent people, people I don't know what else to say.

Okay, the stadium was built with UEFA standards, it passed them. UEFA came and licensed the Partizan stadium, and the Albanian Football Federation. No Idriz came to license the stadium. All the conditions are super modern. We even invested on the last day, because the fields are not finished yet, so that the road can be made as good as possible. This work is finished, that stadium is licensed, and as all the fans saw, it went very well. Hey, if the police had taken measures from the beginning, there would have been no problem, zero problem.

I don't care about the result at all, it's a celebration of Tirana. How Partizan won, that Tirana won, it's not important, it's a celebration of the city. And to make it a more serious organization and there's no problem. This is a coincidence that it happened again at the Partizan stadium, because we know that such matches take place in the "National Arena", because I don't know what it will be called again, come on, the matches are being held there. The U-17 European Championship will be held, some adjustments are being made and the Federation is not at fault. We as Partizan have even lost finances for this match. It's not that we had a great love for the match to be held here. But the Partizan stadium meets all the conditions. If the State Police and the Partizan administration and the Federation come to an agreement with each other and stand their ground, everything will go very well.

"This Idrizi I'm saying it once again, I'm ashamed to repeat it, I don't know him and he doesn't know me. I spoke to him 48 hours ago, he was silent on the phone, I don't know what he said and I haven't even dealt with him anymore, the general director of Partizan, the general secretary and luckily in the end the chairman of the board was involved, because if he hadn't intervened, today I don't know what unpleasant things could have happened ," concluded Partizan's president, Gaz Demi, on the "Skaner" show.