Supreme Court is expected to decide today whether the investigations for the January 21 file will be conducted by the Special Prosecutor’s Office or by the Tirana Prosecutor’s Office.
The murders on the Boulevard during the socialist opposition protest 13 years ago have been classified as a state crime. Even the Strasbourg Court has requested a re-investigation of this event, where four citizens were killed by the Guard’s bullets by order of the state.
The European Court of Human Rights, in its decision on the murder of Aleks Nika in the January 21 protests, held the Albanian state responsible for the murder, but also for not solving it and punishing the perpetrators. According to the court, the state failed to control the protest and the officers of the Republic Guard used firearms, killing four people, including Aleks Nika.
In Albania, according to the Strasbourg decision, the courts did not specify whether the use of weapons on protesters was the last resort for the guards.
Likewise, the court says in the decision that the office of the Prime Minister led by Sali Berisha did not provide all the video recordings or the Prosecution failed to seize the recordings that would be valid evidence for the investigation.
In the end, the European Court of Human Rights suggests that the authorities should continue the investigation to clarify the circumstances of Alex Nika’s death and to identify and punish those responsible. The Strasbourg court was set in motion at the request of the Nika family.
The file on the murder of Aleks Nika has been investigated for 2 years by the prosecutor’s office in Tirana, which has not yet come to a conclusion about the authorship of the crime. Aleks Nika was killed in the protest of January 21, 2011 on the “Dëshmorët e Kombit” boulevard, along with 3 other protesters.
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