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Rama 'targets' the judge who dismissed his defamation lawsuit, who is the "abuse of justice" who released the deputy's son

Politiko 2025-06-12 18:10:27

Rama 'targets' the judge who dismissed his defamation lawsuit, who is

Prime Minister Edi Rama is harsh with justice if they don't follow his lead.

Such was the stance today when the Tirana Court dismissed the defamation lawsuit against former Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha.

Through a post on the "X" platform, Rama described the decision as a disappointing example of the judiciary, and even ironically, compared Judge Engjëllushe Tahiri to the grotesque literary character, Švejk, implying that the decision, according to him, was ridiculous and unworthy of a justice system that claims reform.

"The Tirana Court of First Instance today dismissed my defamation lawsuit against Luli in 2018, for which the judge took seven years to conclude that, as the plaintiff, I "have not suffered any damage, since I currently hold the office of Prime Minister and the statement", therefore Luli's defamation "has not affected the public's perception of me"!!!

So according to the judge, Luli did not slander as long as his slander did not remove me from office!!!

Now that this reasoning has not come from a humorous book, but from a court and that the reasoning is not the author of "The Good Soldier Schweik", but a judge who is paid more than a teacher or a doctor from Albanian taxes, this is a fact to cry about and not at all to laugh about - when you then think that this judge belongs to the Union that is demanding a 700 Euro salary increase from the Constitutional Court, crying becomes lamentation! While if you then add to this satirical judicial event, the doubt about how people's rights can be put in the hands of such a judge, then you have to ask: Will the government of the Judiciary, with its senior advisors and inspectors and hundreds of its highly paid administration employees, wake up from their slumber to put the deeds and tragedies that ordinary people's rights face in courtrooms through the filter of high public responsibility?!

And let's be clear, the problem is not what a judge did with a defamation case, especially when the defamers in question don't even take the laceless shoes they wear seriously :-) The problem here is how to deal with the much more important issues of the people, which depend on the mind of the judge in question or others like her, whose logical level is below the capacity of a 12-year-old!!! ", writes Rama.

Who is Judge Engjëllushe Tahiri?

Judge Tahiri, who made the decision to dismiss the lawsuit, is a name confirmed by the Independent Qualification Commission in 2023. She has a career built through the Magistrates' School and has served in the Krujë District Court, as well as in the Legal Service Unit at the High Court.

The same judge in 2012 released the son of socialist MP Rexhep Rrahja from prison, despite the request of the Prosecutor's Office.

We recall that prosecutor Mirela Kapo requested a year in prison for the son of the SP MP, who was accused of raping Xh. Maloku, even though he had denied the charges. But judge Tahiri decided to let Rrahjan go free.