Ballist's wife: His condition has deteriorated, the worst could (Photo)

Federica Lo Torto, Ismail's wife “baller” Morina, agrees that the author of the driver's flight to the night of Belgrade will attempt to self-refund if his extradition process to Serbia follows. In a direct link to the “afternoon at Top Channel”, it has shown how Morina is experiencing her stay in prison and the difficulties she faces, which are pushing her into the act of self - sacrifice.

How do you feel and how your condition is, considering all the challenges your family has faced?

I'm in a lot of trouble. I'm very upset because there's no security whatsoever. I'm doing everything I can to solve this issue in a more positive way. But I don't have any kind of security”.

When you say “I'm doing everything...”, what steps have you taken so far?

So far I have found a lawyer who speaks Italian so that I can communicate directly with him, so as not to need a translator or use a language that is not mine. Because it would not be random, and I would not express myself properly.

We have been working on this strategy, thanks to the ongoing appeals for the decisions of the Croatian court that have always confirmed the extradition, we have also applied for political asylum on the very basis of threats it makes from 2014. Even today, even these days, in his Facebook profile, he received threats from persons who say they are waiting in Serbia to guarantee a “favourable treatment” he will forever remember.

This situation does not give us satisfaction because several months have passed. I know the procedure is over and I told Ishmael, but it seems Ishmael is now surrendering. Looks like he's not holding back. You don't keep yourself emotional, emotional. I can't stand the pressure. He can't take it anymore because the conditions he's living in are not favourable conditions”.

When you say they're not favourable conditions... Míti explains what conditions he lives in?

It's locked in a room 10 m2, along with 10 other people. There's a small window, but it's extremely small. It is closed there all day, the maximum can appear half an hour or an hour with people who speak neither Italian nor Albanian.

Someone speaks English, but not much, so he's there alone. He keeps thinking only about his own things, only his own matter, and that certainly does not help him. There's only 15 minutes a week to call, and every phone call is recorded and followed directly, so sometimes the one who hears us comes in.

This certainly doesn't help Ishmael open up to me. It's hard to meet him. I can only meet him once a week in 20 minutes, always in the presence of someone else. I've managed to have a few more family meetings so that the kids can see it, so this is also a difficult situation because with children watching a gentleman sitting down, they understand why he should be there, but that's how we can touch him. When meetings are without kids, we're separated from a separate window so you can't even touch it. This has serious consequences”.

Federika, did you await the Croatian Supreme Court's decision on extradition to Serbia? Until that day, all were hopeful, and there were even some news, I don't know how real they were, that there would be policy interference that would save Ballist's extradition to Serbia. Did you have the same hopes?

I didn't have much hope. To be honest, I always knew that true salvation would be asylum. But of course, we have received encouraging signals. So Ishmael had hope in this regard. He hoped to find a political solution at this stage, but unfortunately it did not happen. And of course this has affected the worsening state of his”.

In your profession you're a lawyer and you know the lawyer. The information we have says that the Ballist is accused of inciting hatred between the two states, a criminal offense that envisions 1 to 8 years in prison. Is that the same information you have?

“Yes, yes. It's true. He is also accused of inciting hatred against the Serbian nation - a complex work. So he is accused of insulting even Serbia's honour. In my judgment, it's questionable as a charge. I'd be curious to understand what the evidence is on which this charge is based, given the evidence”.

What is your greatest fear? If it actually all ends up like this, like the decisions so far, for Ballist Morina to be extradited to Serbia.

My biggest “, I have to admit, is for him to be self- conflicted in Croatia. He has no intention of going to Serbia, leaving for Serbia. This is essential and I want to avoid this at any cost.”

Did he tell you this, or do you think, knowing Ballist and knowing the circumstances?

“E said. He said it from the beginning. And recently, when I've noticed that he's surrendering and letting himself go, when he says I refuse asylum and I don't want to go to Serbia”.

Federika, you have had no hope that a political intervention could prevent this flow of decisions in Croatian justice. But has Ballist been hopeful that they would help his Albanian friends, those who somehow made them feel proud with the gesture made? Was there hope that Albanian politics would intervene? 

I want to say that beyond the first month, so when I have been absolutely alone, then Albanian authorities intervene. I accept that. I can tell today they're working for Ismaili. The fruit we haven't seen yet but I personally understand why. Understandably, they are complex jobs, and there are political interests in the game.

It's hard to expect immediate results, but because Ismaili is human and unfortunately it's not machine, and it can't have a series of continuing difficult situations like the situation right now, I hope at this moment and I pray that these interventions, these actions, can be accomplished as soon as possible. At least I hope that parole will be achieved, because this is an opportunity that could be achieved early.

We've been asking the Croatian state since the beginning because there are many who have extradition processes but without staying in prison. Above all, when it comes to a political crime like this and it's not about a social alarm. But they have never given us bail, but I hope that with the intervention of the Albanian government we will have at least parole in order to be in a family environment. Although he will continue to stay in Dubrovnik, but not among the unknown and abandoned people, by himself”.

When will all of this end? You said a little earlier that you told Ismaili that this is a procedure that will take a long time. When is the final decision expected from Croatian justice to be made and learned whether the Ballist will be extradited to Serbia or not?

I expect next week news of parole, which would constitute a piece of the solution. And within September I expect to understand what the Croatian Justice Minister intends to do, because we are already in the hands of politics. Judicial organs have been expressed and now it is the minister who must decide what to do.

If he wants to sign this extradition, then make it applicable or not. I continue to prepare documents for the asylum procedure. It should also be concluded within the next week so that we can give a further incentive to this procedure and that as soon as possible”.

In the meantime, you are strong, Federica? Considering the circumstances that you're in the seventh month and a few months you're separated from the baby's coming?

I'm very tired, I'm in trouble. I have no family help because I do not have brothers or sisters who can help me in this situation. Even children have had consequences from this story. The older girl has ongoing episodes of somnambulism and has violent behavior because she cannot get rid of this tension.

He saw his father holding some bad people. She's afraid they can take him too. At first, he did not even want to go to prison because he was afraid of being held there, me and him. And the little boy is only 3 years old, but he misses his father. He has also begun to imitate him in everyday gestures, and he is currently growing up without his father.

The other is also suffering a lot. He feels so much about my mood swings and my moments are bored and he's suffering all of it”

Did you ever think that when the game happened that things would work out like this? Did you have any feeling things would go wrong and that shouldn't be done? I don't know what you might have discussed with Ishmael in those days.

I didn't expect it to be true. He was obsessed, if I could use that expression, he was obsessed with this issue. He felt it as an obligation, a honor he was doing to his homeland. I didn't want to oppose him. Of course, I told her that as a father and family man, she had responsibilities and was also in danger.

But when I saw how convinced he was, I let him act because I didn't want to be the one who held his husband in prison. But of course I didn't expect all this noise to occur. Even these speculations, after all, are about a symbolic gesture that will honor Albania and not mock another country.

He will absolutely not mock another country and offend that country. So I'm surprised and I'm very upset, because someone means that you read that action incorrectly”.