Meta was forcibly arrested, the minister defends the State Police: They were forced to use force

The arrest of the leader of the Freedom Party, Ilir Meta, was criticized not only by the opposition, but also by analysts and journalists who described it as a violent association, where Meta was not treated as a former president and party leader.

The Minister of the Interior, Ervin Hoxha, also reacted to these statements, who in a reaction made on Facebook defended the State Police and, like the latter, stated that the officers have performed their duty.

The minister claims that Meta used an inappropriate vocabulary towards the police and that he resisted. According to the minister, the police do not deserve the way they are being treated on the screens, justifying the force and violence with which Meta was treated.

REACTION:

I followed with attention and respect the opinions of a number of analysts engaged last night, regarding the arrest of the citizen Ilir Meta, by the State Police.

The vocabulary has been extreme for how the order of the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office was executed against the citizen in question.

Heavy labels were used against the Police and its officers were accused of guilt, which they did not do, and the reaction to the forceful resistance of the person they had the duty to stop was taken out of the context of the event.

There are also alternative options for how it should have been carried out, where it should have been carried out, and when it should have been carried out, due to what he has represented in the decades of Albanian political life.

I do not want to make any controversy with the gentlemen and ladies engaged, on the screens of this discussion.

Last night, beyond the known positions, they also had the advantage of the spectator in making judgments, outside the dynamics and tension of the event.

But I feel it is my duty to speak on behalf of those officers who do not deserve the extremely tendentious treatment that was given to their operation.

For the implementation of the Court's decision, operatives of the Operational Mobility Force, a special force trained and specialized to follow the standard protocols according to the case, and not employees of the Order, which is a daily service force, were engaged.

They were unfortunately faced with a subject who strongly objected to submitting to the Court's decision as soon as he learned of it.

This is the genesis of the event and from here begins the reasoning according to the protocol that the State Police follows in the execution of an arrest decision.

All the taste, certainly not good, of the scene that was created is related to this fact.

If the citizen Ilir Meta had not opposed the execution of the decision, the dynamics of the event would not have produced anything other than his peaceful transition from the private vehicle to the police escort vehicle.

On the other hand, no one can say that that violent display of opposition would not have been the same anywhere else, where it could have been stopped.

Even according to the preparatory analysis of the operation, in other circumstances, the result could have been even more problematic for the taste of those who last night treated the Police as the authors of a violent operation.

But unfortunately and surprisingly, all of them "forgot" that only her violent opposition and nothing else made the forced escorting of the citizen Ilir Meta inevitable. As a result, the disturbing scene!

Therefore, with sincere regret for the impossibility of avoiding his escort by force, I am also sorry that I cannot agree with the optics of last night's accusers of the State Police.

With their extreme vocabulary towards its effectives, no and no. Never ever.

And finally, I find it necessary to underline an absolute and completely banal truth. When the State Police, not in Albania, but everywhere in the world, receives an arrest warrant, it has not many options available, but only one: To arrest the wanted person and period. He can neither inform him, nor invite him, nor coordinate with him, the place and the time of detention. All these are not simply impossible, but are criminal offenses punishable by imprisonment.

So, the State Police yesterday performed the task and was forced to perform it using force, for all that I clarified above, referring to the dynamics of the event, not the desire, how it would have been better to happen or not happen.