WHY LAW AND LIFE

By Gjin MARKU

Inside the city of Bologna there lies a field of wheat, surrounded by gardens and a virgin forest, and if you stay for some minutes rabbits, deer approach you with a soft and benevolent look. They live among the bushes and the green grass, without a fence and without being afraid of the passers by or the children who come near to look. Around this natural space protected by the law, the gracious architecture of the buildings and the gardens full of freshness are permeated by the clean air and the regular streets with permanent vividness, which create the feeling of optimism, security and adoration.
One day with a leaflet and a map in hand, I was looking at some inhabitants who were discussing very concernedly about a wounded bird. Suddenly I was obliged to answer for everything to one police girl of the commune. After clarifying that I was a foreign visitor, she was very forthcoming to help me showing the whereabouts of the street I had marked on the map.
Her correctness in duty, the way of communication, her readiness to help me reminded me of an FBI representative in Tirana. The FBI group chief showed me that before becoming a sheriff, when he was working in traffic control, he saw a car coming to his direction at so an extraordinary speed that he did not manage to give the signal of stop. After informing the other patrol to substitute him, he started to follow it, and after half an hour being tired by sped and tension he ended at the doors of a hospital, which opened quickly as soon as the followed car arrived. Without waiting for explanations he was obliged to call under arrest a lady who implored him not to prevent her. When he was on the point of arresting, a team of physicians confirmed that they urgently called the lady and she was the only specialist who could save the life of a patient, who had a three hours difficult operation in the brain. After 90 minutes, somewhat of a victor, she appears in front of the sheriff, who recalls her to take off the gloves before she stretches the hands to undergo the detention. The trial was after three weeks and all the people present were against the punishment of this lady and against his attitude as policeman. When he saw that the jury was on their side, he was obliged to present the registration of the car computer for the law violations during the time he followed the lady through the traffic. There were 23 violations considered dangerous for the others life. Facing this fact, the jury was compelled to sentence the lady with six months imprisonment.
The year had hardly passed when the sheriff had a call. On the other side was the sentenced lady who wanted to pay a visit to him together with her husband. They came with a huge bunch of flowers at the lunch laid for them. It was not the first time he received thanks from the people having problems with the law, but this was somewhat special, and he was set in a difficult position. He was pricked in the conscious whether he had acted fairly or not. All was cleared up when the lady, with a feeling of sincere friendship handed over to his wife the letter of the hospital doctors who, with the deepest humbleness, thanked her husband for the sacred duty he carried on his shoulders.