Deputy Attorney General Arqile Koça told the United Colleges that there is a need to unify the practice for determining security measures, but appealed for caution, as according to him there is a risk of harming the public interest.
"We are concerned that the other extreme is now being crossed, harming the public interest. I am a representative of the public interest. I am obliged to protect the fundamental rights of the individual, because it is part of the whole. And I am concerned that in your reasoning, you are careful to keep this in harmony. We start from the fact that alternative measures in the Albanian reality often become unworkable," he declared.
During his speech, Luan Hasneziri, who defends the interests of a defendant in a drug case, said that when determining a security measure, courts must analyze not only the circumstances of the case, but also the personality of the suspect. According to him, the court has the obligation to explain why imprisonment is the only appropriate measure for a specific individual and no other measure.
To illustrate this, he focused on senior officials.
"We are all fallible in this life and this world, and if we have a highly educated intellectual who for a moment strayed in his life and we end his life by automatically sending him to prison, while other security measures can be applied, I think it is something that has been overcome," stressed Hasneziri.
So, according to him, the courts should be careful and apply alternative measures, because according to him, they have been sparing over the years.
The United Colleges were set in motion by an initiative of Chief Justice Sokol Sadushi and are examining the issue related to the change in judicial practice for the assignment of security measures "prison arrest".
The debate over security measures comes at a time when SPAK has cracked down on several senior officials and sent them to detention, under suspicion of corruption or money laundering. Voices in favor of the arrested officials point out that prosecutors are arresting without evidence, while voices against say that Sadushi is paving the way for the corrupt to leave their cells.
