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The building in these images, known as the former Reserve School in the "Skënderbeg" neighborhood in Shkodra, is the "apple of contention" that culminated on Monday with the murder of judge Astrit Kalaja inside the Court of Appeals in the capital.
Since 1992, the building has been populated by 32 families who had the status of homeless or politically persecuted. A year later, in 1993, the building acquired an owner. A decision of the Property Restitution Commission recognized Gjon Shkambi as the heir of the former owners, giving him the right of pre-emption, a decision that he was able to confirm in the following years in the Shkodra Court.
After the Ministry of Finance claimed to have purchased the property, Shkambi was invested through enforcement to vacate what he claimed was his property, while he encountered opposition from the families, who challenged the execution orders in court. The battle that began between the two parties has not ended even today.
Monday's decision in the Appeal Court announced by Judge Kalaja was just one episode in a more than 20-year-old legal ordeal, an ordeal that, along the way, was enriched with other lawsuits, disputes over enforcement fines, and rents requested by Gjon Shkambi from each of his family members.
On Monday of this week, in the Appeal, Judge Kalaja Shkambi requested that he leave in force several fines of almost 50 thousand lek imposed by the bailiffs on the families in the building claimed by him, a fine that had been repealed by the Shkodra Court in July 2024. The announced decision was not the one that Shkambi requested.
On the other hand, regarding the claims over the 3-story building in the High Court alone, Gjon Shkambi is a party to 10 court cases, 4 of which are still pending trial and where the opposing parties are the families of the building.
According to court decisions obtained by A2, during 2025 alone, Gjon Shkambi has addressed the Supreme Court twice, claiming that the reasonable deadline for reviewing his appeals in this court is being violated. In one of them, Shkambi told the Supreme Court that he had filed an appeal in May 2018 and that when 6 years and 7 months had passed, the case had still not been considered by this court.
In the untried appeal, Shkambi sought the obligation of the residents to pay him a rent of 20 thousand lek per month from February 2013 until the execution of the decision. “The postponement of the trial has brought consequences for me, as the defendants continue to hold possession of my property,” Shkambi claimed.
In the decision of February 18, 2025, the High Court dismissed his claims for violation of deadlines, justifying the delay in the review with the burden created due to the dismissals from the vetting and with the fact that the Court was reviewing the cases in chronological order and his appeal had not yet come./A2
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