Scandal over the publication of sexual videos: Well-known figures blackmailed with private footage! No reaction from the Police and the Prosecution

Since last night, a series of videos has been circulating on several online platforms, social networks and mainly on WhatsApp, centred on a well-known name from the world of music, and female singers and artists involved in sexual relations with him.

What gives all this the dimensions of a scandal is not their content. All their protagonists are adults and each is free to make his own choices. Having sexual relations in a private environment does not constitute a crime.

What is grave is the fact of the publication of the videos, moreover without the slightest care to preserve anonymity, at least of the women involved, and to cover the intimate parts of the body. Everyone’s private life is protected, and no one may violate it.

Elton Tozaj has claimed authorship of the publication, speaking of an investigation into the base ways and sexual harassment that artists who want to build a career in the world of art are often forced to face. Such situations are known in the world and there has been no lack of cases discovered by journalists too. But those were based on victims’ accounts, not on the publication of the acts or the circumstances in which they were involved. Meanwhile in this case we have, at least for the moment, no indication of a similar situation. On the contrary, the women who, according to Tozaj’s claims, would be the victims of the well-known artist, have been “condemned” in the most brutal and ugly way by the publication of these videos. During the day one of the artists involved was rushed to hospital, in a state of severe psychological trauma.

On the other hand, the stance of the police or the prosecution seems absurd. Their passivity is justified by the absence of a complaint, while the violation of private life is provided for and punishable by the Criminal Code.

Everything is public, and the lack of an intervention seems unjustifiable. Whether to block further publication, or to discover the purpose of making the videos and how they leaked to be spread with the murderous speed of social networks.

What does the Criminal Code provide?

Article 121

Unjust interference in private life

The installation of devices that serve to listen to or record words or images, listening to or recording words, fixing or recording images, and storing for publication data that expose an aspect of a person’s private life, without his consent, constitutes a criminal offence and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of up to two years.

The distribution, offering for publication or publication by any means or form of public communication or other manner of data obtained in the manner defined in the first paragraph of this article is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years.

Article 122

Dissemination of personal secrets

The dissemination of a secret belonging to the private life of a person by one who obtains it because of duty or profession, when obliged not to disseminate it without being authorised, constitutes a criminal offence and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of up to one year.

The same offence, committed for the purpose of profit or to harm another person, constitutes a criminal offence and is punishable by a fine or imprisonment of up to two years. /Shqiptarja/