Young man stabbed in the stomach, KLP reacts against the media

2025-04-10 22:56:00, Denoncim CNA

Earlier this week, the show "Stop" on Tv Klan broadcast a serious incident in the city of Saranda. On March 27, 2025, a 17-year-old was stabbed three times in the stomach by two teenagers, with the initials KC and AB, after a conflict over a girl. The incident occurred around 3:00 PM, when the 17-year-old was on a date with his girlfriend and was followed by the perpetrators. This was the second attack, after on March 22 they had hit the young man with hard objects, but he had not reported this incident out of fear.

The victim's parents accuse the authorities of not taking measures, emphasizing that AB was not prosecuted, while KC was released with a mandatory appearance. "Stop" asked prosecutor Esmeralda Basho about this case, who said she was "intimidated" by the questions with a camera and microphone.

The High Prosecutorial Council rushed to defend one of its own employees, before examining the circumstances of an event that almost resulted in the death of a young man. The KLP issued a statement to the media disapproving of unofficial information, calling the journalist's own confrontation with the prosecutor unofficial.

Some of the justice system's leaders, former KLP leaders Alfred Balla, Tartar Bazaj, but also Gentian Trenova, Eugen Beci and Arben Llangozi, condemn the KLP's statement, arguing that the journalist was within his rights.

Even the representatives of the media associations, Armand Shkullaku and Aleksandër Cipa, say that the role of the media is to control other powers and informing the public prevails over any other argument. Armand Shkullaku: I think it is an inappropriate reaction. Maybe they felt obliged to show that they are doing something to justify the high salaries they receive and they have nothing else to do. They want to give themselves a kind of clothing and a kind of protection that goes beyond even logic and elementary rules. The prosecutor of Saranda or the chief prosecutor of Saranda if you like, is not a secret headquarters, she is not the Pope. Even if the Pope goes out on the street, the journalist has the right to extend the microphone and ask him a question, not a prosecutor and he must constantly remind him, this is not a duty, but we have to do it because we have nothing to do, they are paid by our taxes, so it is not that we are paid by them, they are paid by our taxes, they are in our service and whenever we find that they are not doing their duty properly, it is our obligation to show this, then how we act, how we build the chronicle, how we do the report, how we obtain the information, this is about us. The KLP does well that the High Council of the Prosecutor's Office does not become the High Council of Labor, to see the duty for which they are paid and for which the legislator voted./tvklan.al