The lion talks after his resignation: Grieving for the unjust loss of a young man's life

Sandra Llesaj reacted to social networks for the resignation given to the murder of young Klodian Rasa by an effective state police.

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These are the reasons that convinced me that TAN I IT IS MOMENT to close a chapter of commitment at the head of the Ministry of the Interior, grieving over the unjust loss of a young man's life, quiet for the right treatment of the event, and proud of setting a standard

Statement of Interior Minister Sander Lojaj

Although I have had many important state tasks in my life, I have never fought or made special efforts to get any of them. All came as a product of certain circumstances, where I was called.

When I was called from Edi Rama to carry out the office of interior minister in 2018, I was fully aware of what awaited me. I had to walk in a mined field early, since the day of the establishment of the Albanian state.

I faced the dilemma that Pater Anton Harap had experienced when he agreed to take a top state post in the bad 1943 year. The dilemma of the big prelate in those terrible times was, should I get rid of a fool you and there's an office; or should I show you your weakness is gone.

And I consciously decided to do a blitz, because I couldn't show any weakness.

I was clear that my whole effort would only be in the function of consolidating the Albanian state, and that for this very reason, I would be in the target of what the Albanian state has systematically fought since its creation day. If you don't know them, try to remember those who set fire to Albania's institutions, kill and wound its police officers, who steal, revile him, and treat him mercilessly.

I haven't had the illusion for a moment that I will change the ministry or Albania. Yet I have tried all my energy to leave a trace of normality in the exercise of duty.

After two years, I declare with high responsibility that Albania is a safer country, with fewer murders, fewer gangs, fewer cannabis, fewer accidents and less crime than ever before in the history of the last 30 years. This picture is not my fault, but that of Albanian citizens, Albanian policemen and all those working daily for Albania.

At the same time, those who have historically killed, burned, stolen, violated, shamed and ugly Albania are trying today to find a pretext to launch a new attack on the country, following efforts to keep it in an amulous state and away from its native European trunk.

Capable of not being ashamed or getting ahead of anything, they are trying to desecrate a painful shooting of a young man, unjustly killed by a police officer who was arrested immediately after the event, to viciously attack other Albanian police officers and our state institutions.

The Interior Ministry is immediately positioned directly, considering illegal the actions of police employees who brought the death of a citizen, thus committing an essential act of accountability but also unusual in the country's new history.

Albania's citizens can never forget that those who today lay their finger on the accused and hand to strike, on January 21, 2011, killed four citizens, injured hundreds of others, in a barbarous political slaughter in the middle of the capital, and further deepened the mold, destroying the evidence of state crime and even refusing to apply prosecutors' orders for the arrest of authors, unknown in any normal country. Those who never apologized for their own massacre and who continue today to consider this great shame before God, the Albanian people, and the state righteous.

In the face of the 21 January 2011 authors' attempt to seek today a new pretext to sow violence among Albanians based on a tragic and fatal episode, as well as with full awareness that the country needs a different model of political behaviour I have decided to resign irrevocable from the post of minister of the Republic of Albania.

I never wanted my conduct at the head of the Ministry of Interior to be like that of many, and especially the authors of the 1997 massacres, 1998 and especially of 2011.

So I am now forever happy that I managed to prove before any Albanian that I am not like them. No. I'm not like them.

Even though, from my first day of office, I have had to face a series of acts of hysterical violence or engage in police officers injured in duty by blindness of antistate violence, I never climbed during the snipers' protests on the roof of the prime minister, as the authors of January 21st did, never allowed the use of weapons in political protests, never did I take to protect any police or other person who violated the law, and I never asked others for any standard that I did not apply on my own.

These are the reasons that convinced me that TAN I IT IS MOMENT to close a chapter of commitment at the head of the Ministry of the Interior, grieving over the unjust loss of a young man's life, quiet for the fair treatment of the event, and proud of setting a diametrically contrary standard to that of the authors of January 21, 2011.

I am still facing the initial dilemma, but in another sense. If I first accepted this position not to show weakness, weakness would be a weakness in the present setting.

Over the past two years at the helm of the Ministry of Interior, I tried and managed to change many things for the better and end my mission with the best historical records in the field of order and public security in the last 30 years of Albania's history.

I knowingly identified myself with every Albanian policeman and remained faithful to that standard. Even today, I believe that in police employees citizens should see the interior minister, as long as the minister agrees and accepts the behavior or attitudes of these employees.

All the things I managed to do in service of the consolidation of the Albanian state are my important mortgage that makes me personally feel good in front of Albanian citizens and grateful for the contribution of all interior ministry structures personnel and my associates.

At the same time, I tried and managed not to change myself. I remained what I was, with the same family home, with the same family, with the same friends. I didn't get anything from office, except my salary that was lower than my income before I became a minister, I didn't buy, I didn't sell, I didn't build, I didn't...

All these things I didn't do today are my infinite wealth that makes me feel rock-like, clean as light and extremely calm.

I know very well that many do not agree with this decision today. But I want to assure them that my decision comes just in their respect, and not in reaction to those who insult, disfigure, steal, or burn this place.

My decision comes as a man and a parent who modestly shares the pain with the parents and children of Klodian Rashi's family, but also as an expression of gratitude and respect for those who believed me supported, encouraged, and fortunately the majority of citizens of Albania.

This act also comes as a sign of thanks to Prime Minister Edi Rama, who believed in me, always maintaining a relationship in the first place among many people, then always intellectually challenging and professionally honest.

And by the end, but not by importance, this is also an expression of love, why not even a wish for Christmas, to my family, to the very great one, the great one, and the little one, for whom I lacked almost entirely for more than two years and who, however, continued to love me and support me as always hard and unconditionally. /A2