Businessman Behgjet Pacolli has reacted after his name was mentioned during the trial of three people accused of the murder of Liridona Ademaj.
In the courtroom, one of the defendants, Granit Plava, stated that Naim Murseli had told him that Pacolli was aware of the murder plan. According to this testimony, he was promised that full responsibility for the act would bring a light sentence and a quick release from prison, due to the alleged influence.
Pacolli has denied these allegations. He has stressed that he had no knowledge of the incident and has no connection to it. In his response, he explains that he chose not to speak out earlier for reasons of dignity and not out of fear.
He adds that he did not want to get involved in controversy or react to accusations that, according to him, come from people who do not act correctly.
"The most dangerous people are not always those whom the world knows to be evil; they are often those whom you have helped the most, and who, as soon as you stop them, turn against you with venom, slander, and treachery."
They forget the blessings they have received, they forget the hand that held them and the word that protected them. And when they can no longer bear the weight of their choices, they seek to escape by mentioning names that no longer belong to their lives. This is not strength. This is poverty of character.
I'm saying it clearly: I have long distanced myself from any person and any path that does not represent me. The help I once gave someone was humane, but the choices they made afterwards belong only to them.
No one has the right to use my name as an alibi, for protection or to clean up my image. My name is not a refuge for anyone who tries to hide the truth behind another's name.
I have remained silent out of dignity, not fear. But my silence is not weakness. It is a refusal to stoop to the level of those who, after feeding on kindness, turn it into poison.
"And in the end, a person does not become evil from a lack of support; he simply shows what has been inside him all along ," Pacolli writes.
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