When the Police Director reacts like a mafia capo

2024-08-14 21:56:37 / IDE NGA ERGYS MëRTIRI

When the Police Director reacts like a mafia capo
I don't know if the killer of Egli Proga in Pogradec is a mobster or a fine, but Police Director Muhamet Rrumbullaku reacted today like a mafia capo. Openly, without a hint of shyness, he appeared today in the public eye, threatening, not his subordinates who do not do their duty properly, but the media who denounced the event, saying that he will open an investigative process against them. His boss Edi Rama then did the same, calling the media's reaction a deliberate and disgusting aggression against the police and the government.

In fact, it is not the media's fault why police inspectors in Pogradec refer to the incident as if it were an accident caused by drinking. The family members have denounced that the police officers told them that the victim was not hit, but fell, while on the other hand, according to them, the police did not collect the evidence properly and did not even surround the scene to conduct the necessary investigations. The prosecution itself claims today that it has investigated the police inspector for not documenting the cause of death.

Although they have a thousand flaws, the media in this case did their duty by denouncing the event, and, without their reaction, today everything would have been closed to the detriment of the victim, as in many other cases. If there were excesses in the reporting, this point is primarily due to the fault of the police itself, which has been silent for four days in a row. Mr. Rrumbullaku should have done his duty, offering full and detailed transparency from the first day to calm public opinion, and not come out today, after four days, to complain that the media is damaging his image the police by misinforming. Delay in reporting and lack of transparency are always the main cause of misinformation and if someone should be investigated or punished for this, it should start with the police themselves and themselves first.

But, instead of giving an account, Rama and Rrumbullaku play the role of the victim and attack, criminally threatening free speech. They chose to side with the aggressors against the victims and those who tell the truth about them. While it was said for days that the killers threaten the witnesses not to speak, today Edi Rama and his police director threatened the journalists to force them to remain silent. Find the difference!

In a democratic country, the police, and even more so the Prime Minister, have no business with the media. Their task is transparency and clarification of opinion. The Prime Minister is not the keeper of the truth to punish anyone who lies (if anyone but him is lying in this story). His job is to put criminals behind bars, not to attack victims when they complain that the state does not protect them.

In any normal country, even if the media has exaggerated, the Prime Minister would have to thank him for the sensitivity shown, as this only helps the police to be more responsible in order not to reduce the severity with which the crime should be punished. The fact that the government reacts with this kind of aggressiveness to those who raise concerns about the work of the police shows the deep compromise that this country has in relation to crime.