TIRANA, Jan  5  /ATA/ Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday shared the homicide figures between 2021 and 2022.

In 2022, the number of homicides dropped 30% as compared to the year before. In 2021, 61 homicides were committed and in 2022, 43 murders.

Rama said that these numbers are “a meaningful FACT that gives us a flagrant example of the gap between the deafening media echo and the reality of the continuous decline of crime. 2022 saw the lowest number of homicides in the last three decades.”

“Reminder: When we started the effort against crime, there were 112 murders  within a span of one year, and as a general rule of thumb, the average was 100 per year,” Rama wrote on social media.

“Normally, it is known that the worst is quickly forgotten, the good never ends, and on the other hand, without doubt, we have a long way to go,” Rama said.

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