Global Courant
Another lawsuit was filed in SPAK from a building that is located just a few meters from the building for which the former mayor of Durrës, Vangjush Dako, was handcuffed.
Since November 2019, this building is also uninhabitable.
17 families of this building, which was completed in 2014, have also filed a lawsuit against the builder and former mayor Dako.
Bashkim Xhika spent all his savings as an illegal immigrant in England to buy this apartment in the coastal town of Durrës. He also bought an entrance to the other building that Dako is accused of, so he is the signatory of the report to the other building as well.
“I am one of 90 family members who have the same company for both, we have told them that the earthquake destroyed our property, but not the earthquake, the builder destroyed us since this building next to us also collapsed. The earthquake has destroyed those that were built outside the technical conditions”, said Bashkim Xhika, who was injured by the November 26 earthquake.
“I worked as an immigrant in England and I paid the money in the pit, I didn’t wait for it to end and I threw all my savings into the trash at both buildings,” said Bashkim Xhika.
The building suffered significant structural damage from the earthquake of 2019. As you can see it has suffered a strong tilt, putting the residents in a spiral of procedures as to whether it was habitable or not.
Despite the warnings of experts to abandon the palace, only in February 2022, the municipality of Durrës accepted the proposal of the construction institute to declare it uninhabitable.
“Half of it is without a permit, without paper upstairs, both buildings are the same, the papers have disappeared”, said Xhika.
Residents claim that the building had major construction deficiencies, also proven by the expert report. This is the expert report carried out by the company ALTEA and Geostudio 2000, which confirms that the building did not have piles but only a concrete slab.
“All of us as residents want the buildings to be demolished, rebuilt and compensated for the properties we have inside”, said Bashkim Xhika.
What makes this situation more absurd is the fact that there are residents who had just entered the new houses, bought with a loan, and although they no longer live in them since 2019, they still continue to pay the loan. The banks have declared that they will stop paying the loan, only when the building collapses. Until then, they must continue to pay the loan every month, for a house they do not have, although the decision to demolish this building has been issued.
“The children have no bread and pay loans, and they haven’t even received the bonus of 3 months because the money was spent on voting”, said Xhika.
The whistleblowers of the case themselves express skepticism about the entire initiated criminal process. They have no interest in who is punished in this process that they consider political, but they simply demand their rights to the property.
“We who were going to arrest Dako did not expect this, we thought that every person with knowledge would be called, seeing the concealment that has been done to this matter, we did not believe that it would happen, but to me it seems more political work. “For me, I don’t want Dako to be punished at all, what he has done and has done to the state, he has done nothing for me. He should not spend an hour in prison, the arrest of Dako is a political matter”, said Xhika.
“It is being acted in a form or manner that does not give credibility to the citizens, to the prosecution and the bodies that conducted the investigation”, said lawyer Redi Ramaj.
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