TIRANA, November 19/ATA/ Former prime minister Sali Berisha appeared today at the Special Prosecution Office against Corruption and Organized Crime where he will be interrogated in the quality of a person who is aware of the killing of 4 protesters on January 21, 2011 on the “Martyrs’ of the Nation” boulevard in front of the government building.
Berisha arrived at SPAK at around 09:00 and will be interrogated by the prosecutors of the case. This is the first time that Berisha will be interrogated by SPAK about “January 21” and his role in this case that is already taken over by the Special Prosecution Office.
The leader of the Democratic Party has appreciated it as a “political investigation”, and that for “13 years the government has used the case for propaganda reasons”.
On October 30, SPAK interrogated the former interior minister Lulzim Basha about the January 21 event.
On January 21, 2011, during a protest in front of the government building, four citizens were killed: Aleks Nika, Ziver Veizi, Faik Myrtaj and Hekuran Dedaj.
In November 2023, the International Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg qualified the January 21 event as a “state crime” and that it should be investigated as such.
Following the order of the Supreme Court, in July 2024, the Special Prosecution Office (SPAK) officially launched investigations into January 21 event. /m.q/a.f/p.s./
