
Today, the 14th preliminary hearing for Erion Veliaj was held at the Special Court. The hearing was postponed again, like the first 13 hearings. Again, an excuse was found by Erion Veliaj. This time, Veliaj's excuse was that he had not met with the lawyer assigned by the court, Valentina Teodorescu.
The tactics of Erion Veliaj and his lawyers to postpone the preliminary hearings have been consistent and every possible machination has been used to achieve the goal.
The preliminary hearing for Erion Veliaj scheduled for January 5 was postponed because Veliaj and his legal defense attorneys did not appear at the hearing, claiming that the Prisons van had not arrived in time to pick up Veliaj from Durres prison.
A claim that was rejected by the Directorate of Prisons, where the institution announced that Veliaj had been waiting for a few minutes by the van, but the mayor, arrested for 5 serious criminal offenses, had not gone.
Another tactic used by Veliaj was the dismissal of lawyers in the preliminary hearing on December 12. On December 12, 2025, Erion Veliaj dismissed lawyers Artan Gjermëni and Ermir Beta, claiming that they failed to prevent him from entering the glass cage. After their dismissal, Veliaj was assigned lawyer Valentina Teodorescu by the GJKKO.
The hearings scheduled for November 12 and 17, as well as December 2 and 5, were postponed because Veliaj's lawyers requested time to familiarize themselves with the investigative documents. Documents that Veliaj's lawyers have received since July.
The preliminary hearing, scheduled for October 28, was postponed due to the tactics of Veliaj's lawyers. The preliminary hearing on October 21 was postponed due to the lawyers' boycott following the lawyer's arrest in Elbasan.
Due to the lawyers' boycott, the preliminary hearing on October 10 was postponed. The boycott was undertaken after the murder of judge Astrit Kalaja in the courtroom.
The preliminary hearing, scheduled for September 29, 2025, was postponed because some of the defendants had not been notified of the hearing.
Listing all the postponed preliminary hearings and the tactics used, it seems that Erion Veliaj will not be tried. The man who talks about the violation of rights and his rights and asks for Strasbourg, is the same man who does not go to court. He is the same man who does not go to trial, to show courage and manliness. With 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses, Erion Veliaj evades justice like those classic fraudsters, with 1001 tricks, ways and maneuvers.
If he were a real man and had the courage to go there to face justice, to face the charges. Erion Veliaj's file has been going to trial since July, we are now in January. So 6 months since Veliaj's file went to trial, but if he had been brave, he would have been tried, the trial would have been over, he would have been declared innocent or he would have been convicted and he would have done his job.
But Erion Veliaj is a coward, simply and only a coward. Maybe a coward and a coward. He is not going to face justice. He deals with intrigue and deceit like he did when he was mayor.
However, time delays, but it does not forget!/CNA
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