Former prosecutor Eugen Beçi has criticized the way security measures are implemented in the Albanian justice system, stating that "spectacular arrests" have become a worrying practice.
Guest on the show "This Week" on News24, Beçi stated that courts often do not individualize security measures and do not analyze the real risk for each detained person.
According to him, in many cases citizens are punished in the same way, without distinction, especially when certain campaigns are carried out by executive institutions.
"Albanian justice has been influenced by the culture of spectacular arrests. General jurisdiction prosecutors have also punished ordinary citizens. There are security measures that are left in force by the court and there is no individualization of actions and risk why the person should be in prison and not in another measure. When you have a campaign, for example illegal constructions, why should everyone be kept in prison? Why is it a campaign made by the executive? The campaign to arrest people in a drunken state begins. And the court keeps everyone in prison. This brings an inflation of the security measure of prison. The judiciary will not be on the firing list of the executive and keeps everyone in the security measure of prison. The controlling bodies of the judiciary should remove a magistrate from his job because he put a person in prison, not because he released a person from prison. Senior officials in the measure of prison, such as Meta and Veliaj, have raised the question of why now? As it seems to politics, when it came to trouble "He also remembered the problems of the citizens. From a procedural point of view, the decision of the High Court is not important, it does not solve the problem," he said.
