The detention of the controversial journalist and publicist Kastriot Myftaraj is not an unexpected act from Edi Rama’s police. Whoever has followed the articles and strong public declarations of Myftaraj knows very well very often they overpass the framework of the so-called normality, of making journalism.

Rama and the law enforcing structures at his personal service have no beef with Kastriot. He has a mountain high of strong conspiracy articles for almost all public figures of Albania and different diplomats. With his style, he pretends to decode the “mysteries” and “reasons” of many strange events in our country, but also around the globe. This is Myftaraj and this is why he has been threatened and sued many times. But, as said above, they have no beef with Myftaraj.

He was the “slim thread” that broke after the unprecedented pressure from Premier Rama on media and journalists that think differently. He was the first example, cautioned since long ago, of Rama’s slide towards Erdoganism and Putinism. Scaring to the limit of handcuffing of any media voice out of control is the core of these autocratic governing philosophies.

In no democratic country the journalists are arrested for their articles. They are sued in courts, where the accusation offers evidence for the charges.

Just to be clear, we are against any call for violence or criminal acts against any individual, as we are in favour of any denouncement of anti-constitutional plans from anyone. Whoever reveals them or conspires with them, will answer before a court of law.

The article Kastriot Myftaraj is accused of is some cogitation about Head of EU Mission Romana Vlahutin. His idea is that this diplomat is “prostituting” with European and Southern Slavs circles for Albania to be swallowed up from Serbs in the framework of a project called “Former Yugoslavia + Albania”. This project, started first as an economic initiative, now has become official. There is no revelation so far. The final goals of the project and the role of an important diplomat are the objects of the article. Is that all true? Myftaraj pretends it is. He offers his point of view and analysis, maybe facts too. If the accused thinks the opposite, she may sue him for slander.

Considering what mentioned above, Myftaraj gives the alarm that Albania’s sovereignty is in danger. He considers Vlahutin, who, according to him, pretends not to see Edi Rama’s drug’s reality, as a protagonist of the project. According to him, any involvement that threatens the country’s sovereignty and integrity is a terrorist act. At this point, he is referring to the Constitution of Albania. Through a logic abstraction, cause and consequence, Myftaraj reaches the conclusion Vlahutin should be treated as a terrorist by Albanians.

This is excessive and we don’t believe the EU Ambassador has reached to this level. But that does not give Rama the right to order the anti-terror structures to handcuff Myftaraj, who has only words as his weapon. Rama has put an “army” of bodyguards at the lady’s disposal, to defend her from a danger no one understands where it’s coming from.

In the article that sent him to the cell, Myftarja uses the metaphor “whore” for Ms. Vlahutin. As a matter of fact, this word has been used in the context of her political misuse. But, even if it is a direct labeling, that would be only a slander or not. It is the author who must prove it. But for that to happen, the lady in question must sue him in the court. Rama’s police cannot wipe the “stain” Myftaraj put on her.

Both “crimes” of the journalist against the diplomat are nothing new in the immoral Albanian media. Only Rama’s act is new - after an unprecedented campaign of slander and blackmail against the media he cannot control – with the act of arresting.

The government-controlled media call every day for revenge and arrests against the political opponents. His police not only do not arrest them, but consider them as “chiefs”.

That’s why, repeating we do not agree with calls with the word “kill” in them, we say they have no beef with Kastriot.

He was merely the “slim thread”, a clear message for what Edi Rama has already started…

Syri.net