The leader of the National Front, Adriatik Alimadhi, reacts for the first time after being escorted by the police.
Alimadhi's full post:
Public clarification!
Dear friends,
Yesterday around 7 pm, as usual, I arrived at my brother's cafe, at our table where we sit with my brothers and a daily friend, making our plans for the election campaign for the coming days.
After a while, one or two people came in and went towards the counter. At this moment, the brother went to serve them.
I was about to go outside, but a policeman was stopping me and wouldn't let me go. I told him to please let me go outside and I thought they were the police officers from police station No. 4 and that they were joking with me since they know me and we meet there every day.
At this moment, another policeman comes, shouting and using street slang. He shouts, 'get in, put the phone here quickly.' I tell him you have no right to take my phone.
I told them not to behave like this, and if you are the state police, identify yourself, give us the order, a plan of measures for the control of the brother's bar, call the state police and we will carry out your orders, lie down on the floor or behind the wall like you have duties and enforce the law. They continued with theirs, shouting and threatening to play lottery and other things... but this was understood to be a common provocation and an unworthy behavior of people who said that we were police officers.
During the ongoing debate, when we asked them to behave not vulgarly but as state police officers and to identify themselves, they continued to behave brutally.
As you have seen in the footage, they dragged me away, placed my hands behind my head, punched me as if I were a criminal and committing a crime in flagrante delicto.
They forcefully put me in the police van, using violence, shouting, threatening me and provoking me so that I would fall prey to provocations. I am grateful that I held my own and I pray to God.
At these moments, only one police officer remained inside the police van, who was not just that, but a hardened patron of a gang of government thieves, cursing me with the words 'stop it or I'll fuck you, you're a slave to the house'. Repeating these words several times, he continued with his fists on my chest, squeezing me tightly and telling me to stop the *** you *** or I'll fuck you, you're a slave to the house and he continued...'.
This was a moment when the policeman wanted to record my words, that's why I'm asking for the recordings, but I believe they've erased them because I personally have outgrown my behavior and patience with his provocation.
At these moments I let him know that I'm the chairman of the National Front, don't hit me, don't use violence and don't threaten me, don't shout at me, don't curse at me like a house servant, behave like a police officer, I let him know that I was a deputy and it would be better if I hadn't told him that, he continued his scheming, I told him not to look away because I'm the chairman of the National Front, and he didn't want to know. They had come for that job, but they failed, they told me, "Oh, you're old, if you were young I knew what I would do to the ***."
At these moments, other police officers also boarded the police van. On the way to the united school, they stopped the van several times and told me to get off and go home. I told them that I would not get off, take me to where you picked me up because people know me and that I have not committed any crime or violation of the law.
After I asked them for this, they shouted at me and told me to show them that we are making a service report and that you opposed us and hit us and put you in jail like a dog, you will itch with us… .
During the above conversations, the civil servant spoke on the phone with his superiors and said, 'We have a plan of measures and an order ready because we need it, a bad situation has arisen for us...'.
Later they took me to police station No. 4 and left me there, around 01:30 two employees of the Police Supervisory Authority came and introduced themselves as such. They took my report and left later they told me to go ahead and you are free at around 3 in the morning. I read the police statement, I feel sorry, how can they slander my person, I have never played the lottery, I don't know how it is played, but this was not even mentioned in my brother's place. Justice will be served one day, we are eagerly waiting for it.
I thank all my friends who are endlessly grateful to you at this moment, I thank the Democratic Party for its support from Mr. Belind Këlliçi, the Secretary General of the Democratic Party, Mr. Flamur Noka, the Secretary General of the Freedom Party, Mr. Tedi Blushi, for their support, and solidarity towards this criminal situation of a gang in power who have not left us alone, since 2013, putting us in prison like my brothers, me personally, endless repeated checks at my brother's bar, etc.!
O gang in power, we know you well who you are, you don't fool us, we are right-wing and we will die like that, we are used to your crimes and your criminal behavior, you have made our skin crawl, you will not be able to defeat us.
But you do not think of conditions of freedom and democracy, you will never become such because you are black-hearted and you will remain so. For personal power you set fire to Albania. You cannot lower our heads, proud that we are an honest and genuine patriotic Albanian race.
I thank you all.
adriatik alimadhi