Prime Minister Edi Rama has reacted again after the statement of the National Bureau of Investigation (BKH), which said that there was no clash between agents and the Guard over leaving their pistols outside the Prime Minister's Office.
In response, Rama criticized the BKH statement as a worrying symptom of "old diseases" that, according to the Prime Minister, continue to appear in the reformed justice organizations.
The Prime Minister clarifies that his criticism was not about illegal possession of weapons, as interpreted by the BKH, but about what he calls an ethical and legal lack, which led the officers to seek to enter the Prime Minister's premises armed. According to Rama, this fact is also acknowledged in the BKH's own statement.
He adds that, if it were an isolated case, he would not have mentioned it in the context of his general position, but emphasizes that this was just one of several episodes, even the "sweetest" of them, which according to him show serious ethical and professional gaps in some members of this structure.
In conclusion, the Prime Minister calls for serious, professional and inter-institutional reflection, with the aim of guaranteeing the success of the Justice Reform. He emphasizes the importance of separating independent justice from old mindsets and new misunderstandings, underlining that the independence and quality of the judiciary must be protected, but without allowing, according to him, “the cure to become a bigger problem than the disease”, endangering freedoms, rights, as well as the functioning of the country's administration and economy.
