{"id":21873,"date":"2021-10-05T20:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=21873"},"modified":"2021-10-05T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T18:29:20","slug":"veliu-has-been-serving-criminal-groups-since-day-one-claims-dp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/veliu-has-been-serving-criminal-groups-since-day-one-claims-dp\/","title":{"rendered":"Veliu had been serving criminal groups since day one, claims DP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party has reacted following Ardi Veliu&#8217;s public resignation from his duties as Chief of Police.<\/p>\n<p>According to their statement, starting from today, the ranks of the police force will have \u2018minus one bandit\u2019 amongst themselves. In addition, DP claimed that Veliu was coerced into resigning from office, even though the prime minister declared he had tried to convince him not to.<\/p>\n<p>DP\u2019s general secretary, Gazment Bardhi wrote on Facebook that the former chief of police has always been in the service of \u2018criminal groups and certain units of the global drug trafficking network\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party also argued that Ardi Veliu\u2019s parting won\u2019t improve the situation as long as the prime minister remains being the \u2018main ally of organized crime groups&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to DP, the fight against organized crime can\u2019t be achieved without banishing Edi Rama as the country\u2019s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as Edi Rama is still prime minister, there will never be a serious war against crime. Honest cops will continue to feel betrayed and demotivated, and serious criminal events will continue to traumatize our cities,\u201d \u2013 wrote Bardhi on his social media network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party has reacted following Ardi Veliu&#8217;s public resignation from his duties as Chief of Police. According to their statement, starting from today, the ranks of the police force will have \u2018minus one bandit\u2019 amongst themselves. In addition, DP claimed that Veliu was coerced into resigning from office, even though the prime minister declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":21874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Veliu had been serving criminal groups since day one, claims DP - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/veliu-has-been-serving-criminal-groups-since-day-one-claims-dp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Veliu had been serving criminal groups since day one, claims DP - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Democratic Party has reacted following Ardi Veliu&#8217;s public resignation from his duties as Chief of Police. 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