Albania continues to have a corrupt judiciary that has not yielded significant results in curbing organized crime and illegal activities among the country’s officials who have growing influence. The conviction of Saimir Tahiri is not a success at all, Ambassador Kim, today you should have also apologized on behalf of former Ambassador Donald Lu’s statements made years ago.

Among the first to react after the conviction of former Albanian Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri was the American ambassador to Tirana, Yuri Kim. In the flurry of all the backlash, which is more about getting to the bottom of it than telling the truth, Kim said no one is above the law.

“No more impunity,” Kim said through her brief message.

Talking about impunity on this day sounds like a big joke.

The story of Saimir Tahiri is neither a thunderclap in a clear sky, nor detached from the government of Edi Rama, on which mainly rests what has happened since the Socialist Party came to power in 2013.

Just like in Honduras, by making them believe that they were fighting drugs, they “succeeded” in making Albania the first narco-state in Europe in a few years, even in a few months. It’s not our labeling, but it’s the Western media that constantly reported how Albania was filled with cannabis.

The only ones who didn’t speak, even while participating in the orgasmic parades of Edi Rama’s successes against drugs, were the foreign diplomats in Tirana.

The climax came when the Italian justice was set in motion for Saimir Tahiri, then the first steps were taken by the Albanian justice. The then US Ambassador to Tirana, Donald Lu, surprised the whole country when he gathered a group of young people and spoke about the trial against Saimir Tahiri. He compared it to the trials that took place under communism.

Donald Lu spoke so much about Spaç, Burrel and Qafë Bari (former communist prisons) linking them to the case of Saimir Tahiri, that anyone who suffered in these concentration camps would be shocked to say the least.

Tahiri is gone, but what he left behind, which was relentlessly pursued by the government of Edi Rama, will have irreparable consequences. Cannabis gave way to heroin, heroin to cocaine, and Albania became an operational hub for international trafficking. In Brussels, they know it, but they never say it openly: Albania is not progressing towards integration because it is a danger for the security of European countries. Crime, drugs and corruption that have spread from the operational center in Albania to other countries are the main reason why we are called a narco-state.

The only ones who continue not to talk about this issue are the foreign diplomats, led by the American ambassador. They even use tiny particles like the condemnation of Saimir Tahiri to talk about success.

Anyone who reacted on social networks and everywhere, realized that Saimir Tahiri had been sacrificed by Edi Rama. It is he who controls justice and makes the necessary concessions so that the internationals applaud the success.

But it is not at all a success. Today should have been the day for Yuri Kim to apologize not only for Donald Lu’s statements, but also for the justice captured and commanded by Edi Rama.

A foreign pseudo-analyst wrote a few days ago that Sali Berisha’s popular rallies draw attention to bad governance. According to him, the time has come for Edi Rama to show the world that he is fighting corruption.

The ball rose in the air, Rama kicked it like in a volleyball match. He hands Saimir Tahiri’s head on a golden plate to the internationals so that they have a cause to defend and of which they are proud. As long as whoever built everything within the underground economy and the dark corridors of organized crime, in Albania, must not be touched.

Tahiri’s conviction is not a success! It’s a fail.

*Translated from Syri.net