The television screens in the cafes of Shkodra, an opposition “enclave” in Northwestern Albania, instead of showing video clips, broadcast, in the winter of 2022, nightly programs where the Sally Berisha from his office he was launching slurs against the Albanian prime minister Edi Rama. The broadcast was daily, live or “refrigerated”.
“Rama will silence him” they predicted at the time for the former president and prime minister of Albania and current leader of the Democratic Party of Albania. Almost a year passed until the 80-year-old Berisha was finally “silenced”: he was placed under house arrest by court order (December 30, 2023), accused of corruption during his prime ministership.
“This is a political attack, aimed at silencing the largest opposition party” comments on “Vima” n Albana Voksi, Berisha’s “right hand” and one of the most prominent MPs of his party. The elected vice-president of the Women’s Forum of the European People’s Party (EPP) finds that the prosecution cases of Berisha and the imprisoned mayor of Khimarra Freddy Belleri have “common elements”: “Both are cases of political use of law enforcement and the judicial system to target political opponents. Both Beleris and Berisha were politically targeted and politically prosecuted, without any basis. Edi Rama is behind both cases”.
“Beleris was trapped by an organized police operation. His treatment by the judicial system, the violation of his human and democratic rights, is unacceptable. The Berisha case is even worse” as, although investigated for more than three years, “they found no evidence to formally accuse him” stresses Voxy.
“In the three years of investigation, Berisha was never interrogated. Albania is the only country with the leader of the opposition under house arrest without charge” concludes the Albanian politician who every afternoon, together with her fellow citizens, participates in protest rallies outside Berisha’s house.
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