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Valbona, who for 20 years has been selling the roses planted in her garden, on the streets of Bllok in Tirana, recounted the event that shocked Albania in 2014.
She says that Artan Santo, the director of a bank at the time, who was killed on his way to work, was one of her regular customers.
Valbona appreciates Santo as kind and very educated, and he does not forget the trauma he experienced, since the murder happened very close to where he sold roses.
"I was most impressed by Artan Santo, he was a cultured and educated man. He bought flowers, especially on Saturdays when he was with his family, they got fresh flowers and they always bought them from me. I didn't know he was a bank manager. Then when I saw on TV who it was, I said this big man bought flowers on the street and was so kind. He spoke as if he had grown up in the village with us, he was very cultured and respectful. He didn't even accept to give him a gift, he always gave money.
I had gone out there as usual and heard the shot, I told the man that there was a murder. He was in the cafe just above. We did not know who had been killed. The children were also shocked that all the journalists and cameras had caught me and I had appeared on every television station. The police came and blocked the area and I stayed there until the end. I stayed there with the buckets of flowers as I was told not to move and touch the flowers.
I was touched when his son came and saw the place. Many days later I suffered such anxiety that it seemed like it would happen again. The citizens of Tirana used to take flowers for him and put them at the place where he was killed, that's when I realized who this man was. And this work lasted a year", she told Euronews Albania.
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