In his podcast "Flasim", like every Sunday, Prime Minister Edi Rama spoke about the most key moments of the week we are leaving behind.

He initially stopped at the last Democratic Party protest, the one on February 10, which was accompanied by incidents.

He also spoke about the trial in The Hague against former KLA leaders, the decision to suspend Deputy Prime Minister Belinda Balluku, Albania's participation in the Peace Board, and more.

Prime Minister Rama said that protest participants, who often wear masks and use dangerous weapons such as Molotov cocktails, have injured police officers and damaged public property and have even been paid for it.

"I had been commenting on an opposition protest for a long time, I can't remember, until two weeks ago, after a violent escalation, I made a comment to say something as simple as it was true. Because it's true, in Europe there are protesters, anarchists, ecologists, right-wing or left-wing extremists, students, anti-globalists, hooligan fans, all kinds of neo-fascist groups who take to the streets for their own reasons. They mask themselves, arm themselves with Molotov cocktails, break, burn, injure police officers, destroy property.

But since the time of the notorious parties of 100 years ago, those in Germany and Italy, which then preceded the unspeakably dark era of fascism and Nazism, there is only one parliamentary party in Europe that has had in its program of activity an integral part of its existence since its birth, the exercise of violence, the destruction of property, the attack on institutional buildings and even on its own building, the mobilization of paramilitaries, who until yesterday were the spiritual leader's squad. Now they are simply mercenaries recruited with money from neighborhood thugs who wear masks, hide their faces behind signs and wait for the signal to finish the job they were paid for by throwing Molotov cocktails without being identified by the cameras according to plan.

"And the mercenaries appeared again at the beginning of this week and did even more damage, now moving on to throwing genuine homemade bombs prepared by the leadership of the so-called and apologetic Democratic Party and injuring even more police officers, even causing burn injuries," the head of government said.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the phenomenon is not comparable to normal protests in Europe, but represents a degeneration of a political force, which aims only to ruin the country's image.

"It is clear that these kinds of protests with the dirt they create on the boulevard, look at them and think about them like I am telling you, are an outpouring on the streets of a misguided old man who organizes them and then rubs his hands when images of his outpourings appear in foreign media, damaging the image of Albania and creating the idea of ​​what is happening in Albania."

In fact, what is happening in relation to what we are saying is an unstoppable degeneration and the explosion of an inconsolable despair, the result of the further shrinkage of a party, you might say, of a force, who knows what force it has anymore, of a political Arab that has no mission, but only one function, to dismiss the old man's cronies. Nothing more, nothing less. What a black spot," he added.

Among other things, Prime Minister Rama also touched on the ongoing trial at the Hague Special Court against former KLA leaders. The Prime Minister stated that there is not enough evidence to directly link the crimes to Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi.

"The Hague Prosecutor's Office requested 45 years in prison for Hashim Thaçi and for each of the other three leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi. It took me and I honestly need, I need time to understand how such a thing, such madness, such shamelessness, such cruelty, can be confronted with words.

The request for 45 years in prison for the four significant figures of the Liberation War was a bomb dropped on the people and the Republic of Kosovo. A completely unworthy prosecution, which, in order to examine the bloody history of the Kosovo Liberation War, conducted a six-year investigation and came up with the claim that during the years '98-99, crimes against humanity and war crimes were committed against civilians. But there is no international law that allows punishments on such claims and without any clear evidence that there is a plan and an organized force to attack and take the lives of civilians as such, because they are civilians," said Rama regarding the Special Prosecution's claim to sentence the former KLA leaders to 45 years in prison each.

He criticized The Hague prosecutors, saying that this claim is not only a shame for them, but also for the states that support and pay for that court.

"Also, there is no type of legislation and no international law that paves the way for the punishment of a leader in a liberation war, just because he was a leader. But, without proving that he gave orders to attack civilians, that he had real control over all combat formations in the territory of a liberation army in the name, but of a set of forces united by the same ideal and purpose, but not in the same organization in the territory or that he had any other direct connection with criminal acts of this nature.

And that kind of prosecution failed to produce even a single piece of evidence to support this cruel request after six or so years of investigations supported by a chain of democratic states, which should feel ashamed of such a charade. This is not a shame for some prosecutors, for that kind of international idiot who came out and read nonsense. This is a shame for the states that support that court, that pay that court, that provide staggering salaries for characters of this ignorance and at the same time this… I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say," the prime minister added. /KlanTv/

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