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Alfred Lela
Albania, whenever it is shocked by murder or event that appears through disaster and death, reveals through it a second, which is more poignant than the loss of life or and some, because it is symbolized by the bad omen of a series of deaths or disasters.
Such was the case of the 2019 earthquake, the ruins made of mountains and the people under them, accompanied by the appearance of other people, on the ruins, trying to save the unfortunate. The most poignant images, take away human solidarity or union in pain and loss, were of intrusive operations workers digging concrete with a beak or something that looked like one.
Or the heroism of the rescue dogs, who came from Kosovo, just as the former children of soc-realism rejoiced at the stories of border dogs caught by saboteurs on Literary Reading pages.
Such images give and give the sad picture of helplessness, of unpreparedness, of how the deaths of this earthquake are so unwavering, but could not be less in the future in the event of a similar earthquake, that operational search or rescue units will be ready, prepared, with the right tools or even with the knowledge.
More than that, the name emergency here does not refer to the readiness for an unexpectedly challenging natural event, but a careless occupation, an urgency that always catches us on the couch and contemplates 'God bless you!'.
A creepy angle of our reality appeared in the images of the murder of Deputy Commissioner Saimir Hoxha in Lezha on Wednesday. The video published in the media shows a Police Defender being chased by a Smart. The Police version tells us that the group of officers stopped Aldi Rama's car for control, but the images in the video give a different impression. That it is the machine of evildoers that follows that of the defenders of the law. If it was a pursuit, it is usually the police who do the pursuit, that is, it is the blue car behind and the pursued car. This reversal of the usual follow-up ritual occurred, presumably, due to another fact revealed by police sources. Order forces had burned the parcel with Cannabis Aldi Rama and the pursuit was 'an account claim' to police officers. Take that case,
If we are in the variant when the perpetrators know that it is a police car and are put behind it to be 'held accountable, the picture becomes even more shocking than the two murders that focused the event. We are in the case when the bandits and the policemen are next doors and make a fuss, not like the order of things, when the former is shaken by the latter. This reveals the decline of the myth of the law enforcement officer, to the extent that a 21-year-old, no matter how excited by the effects of drugs, braves to the point that he is put behind the state to take revenge. This impulse either comes from madness, or from equality, that is, from the idea that offenders and retribution are equal. If they share in the share of the illegitimate they can and should share in it eventually. I am not suggesting at all that this is the case of the late Deputy Commissioner Saimir Hoxha, but it could be the case of other sajmirs into the police, who have allowed the small local bandit or the big national one to take power. The same Albanian gang that was once afraid of the shadow of the communist policeman or Zog's gendarme.
That persecution in the Island of Lezha, or many other published cases of open challenge to the people of law in the streets of Albania, proves that the institutions have a duty to work seriously and hard to return the myth of the man of the state. Which has been damaged, more than by the subversion of the underworld, by the meddling of the civil servant in corruption, by their falling into the mire from which they were to draw people, or to lead them to penitentiary-reform institutions, or towards returning to society.
The heaviest burden of guilt lies, of course, on the dome, the leaders of the Police, whose actions and inactions appear so harshly in observation of the journalist colleague Anila Hoxha.
The images of Lezha are sad for the murder of a police officer, but especially for the murder of the image of the law enforcement officer. Without the respect and myth they deserve, Wednesday's criminal chain will continue unbroken on the neck of the state and everyone, until the next longing, the next decoration, the next solidarity.
It is time to show solidarity with the living, not the dead. When we do the latter, we are simply users of their death.