President defense prosecutor, ex-min attacks the army

TIRANA, April 29 – President Bamir Topi came out publicly in defense to the prosecutor general office in the investigation of the Gerdec blast that killed 26 and injure 302 persons.
Last weekend Prosecutor-General Ina Rama made public a long request to lift the parliamentary immunity to former defense Minister Fatmir Mediu to accuse him of abuse of post.
At the same time Mediu considered that as tendentious and on the other side hinted very aggressively that the army commanders had to be blamed for the explosion.
It seems that behind the open words there seems to be a harsher fight between different groups governing the country. Topi said that the prosecutor office’s work was very correct saying it was clean of any political affiliation or pressure.
He also said that this is a moment that everyone should trust justice and the institutions.
Mediu, on his side, said that as a civilian minister he was not in charge of checking the correctness of the work done by a private company in dismantling the ammunition in Gerdec. He added that was done by the army chief-of-staff Gen. Lt. Luan Hoxha who had told him of a clean record in the work there. Mediu repeated that he was personally sorry for the loss of people and that he had resigned for moral reasons, but he considered himself professionally and legally clean in that case. (Tirana Times Staff)