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The evening of July 17, 2016 was nothing more than the continuation of a long conflict, ending with two spouses in separate rooms and with a silence that precedes tragedy. This is the story of Mirela Buzalli, who killed her husband with an axe.
In the early hours of the morning, according to her, a new argument escalates when he tells her that he no longer wants to live with her and is going to bring another woman home. According to her version, that moment is accompanied by an attempted violence with an axe, which she manages to take and use by hitting her partner several times in the head, in the same room where their child was.
During the argument, the victim took an axe that he had hidden behind the bed and tried to hit the suspect, but she was able to dodge, take the axe and hit him several times in the head, leaving him dead on the spot. She then told her eldest son and daughter to go to their cousins, while she herself and her younger son headed to the Vau i Dejës Police Station, where it turns out that she arrived around 07:00 and reported the crime committed.
" The conditions of self-defense normally require detailed expertise because it cannot be abused in the name of self-defense. Normally the most difficult part is the distinction between the conditions of self-defense when a real, immediate and unjust attack has occurred and an action that has been taken in this connotation. Undoubtedly, the law recognizes if you have acted in the conditions of self-defense ," said pedagogue Nadia Elbasani.
" I have had cases where one of them told me: 'Director, it happened to me that my husband's violence has been systematic since the first day I got married. I gave birth to 3 daughters, and after 31 years I managed to kill him. Now I am free, only now am I free.' So, she was convicted, and she thought that now she was free ," said Xhoi Jakaj, former director of the women's prison.
A scene that repeats the same pattern as in Drane Deda, a similar weapon, the same family space, and the same irreversible end that comes after a long history of unspoken violence.
After the act, she does not leave, but sends the children to relatives and presents herself at the Vau i Dejës Police Station to confess to the crime. There she is arrested and later sentenced to 16 years in prison for the murder of her husband.
" From experience, I have found that women are more cooperative, meaning they tell the truth to the prosecution, meaning they do not try to hide or manipulate the investigative or criminal process. In general, they are more cooperative compared to men ," said lawyer Dritan Jahja.
A year after the event, inside the cell, the story takes another silent and serious turn. Mirela Buzalli attempts to end her life by consuming a significant amount of chlorine, a desperate act that immediately takes her to the hospital. There she proves that confronting crime does not end with punishment, but continues inside, in a daily struggle with herself.
As in the case of Drane, the same element that unites these stories returns here: unreported violence and the silence that lasts until the moment when everything explodes.
There were ongoing arguments between the spouses, which were also present on the evening of 17.07.2016, when the victim returned home late. Their conflict continued with insults and as a result the spouses slept in different rooms that night; the victim Shkëlzen slept in the older son's room, while the suspect Mirela slept in another room with her daughter.
According to information from Pojska prison, Mirela Buzalli has also written a letter expressing remorse and asking to be included in the amnesty. Unfortunately, despite Inside Story's research, that letter did not reach our editorial office, remaining an unspoken voice, but one that follows the same tone as Drane's... admission of guilt, the weight of the years and the desire to return to her children.
Two stories that are unknown to each other, but that come together on the same line: from silent violence within the family, to crime and then to repentance, as an attempt to apologize for what happened... / Inside Story
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