Totozani: Muslims have the right to have a mosque, but we will make verification for the site
25/07/2013

The Ombudsman will start an administrative investigation regarding the procedures followed by the Tirana Municipality for giving the construction permit to the mosque on the current park that is situated in front of the Parliament.

After the complaints submitted by the civil society, experts of this institution will ask the Tirana Municipality to see if this permit has been given in accordance with the rules. The Ombudsman says that he is protecting the right of the devotees to have a decent cult object.

“We will start working based on your complaint and by verifying the procedures that have been realized in this decision taken by the public institution. We also guarantee the Albanian muslim devotees that the Ombudsman supports a final and decent solution for building a mosque in Tirana, so that the Muslim devotees do not feel discriminated from the other religious communities”, Totozani declared.

The environmentalist association told the Ombudsman that their complaints are because of the Tirana Municipality has not made an environmental study before giving the permit for this area, and because together with it they have given the permit for the construction of a commercial center, which will damage the only old green park within Tirana.