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Rebeka Gannon was a girl who loved life and nature. A girl who, in her portrait, radiated only kindness, which she did not hesitate to spread to the people around her, or who had met her even once in her life.
It was this purity, coupled with his love for nature and the sea, that he loved so much that they connected him even more with the sport of diving.
A sport that the 29-year-old British woman had practiced for years and had traveled extensively to different countries around the world, from South America to distant Australia.
Explorations that had also brought him to Albania.
A land unknown to her, but which, with its touristic beauties, especially its coastal ones, had also attracted the interest of Rebeka and her friends.
But Rebeka had no way of knowing that the journey she was taking to Albania would be her last in this life.
A life that would be cut short right in the waters of a country that remains mysterious even today to many of the foreign tourists who come to visit.
Just like it happened on the morning of September 19, 2022.
The morning when Rebeka and her group of friends set off into the open sea to dive, accompanied by an Albanian guide, to explore the ruins of an old sunken ship,
But something seems to have gone wrong, and the girl from Great Britain returned to the surface of the sea with no signs of life.
Where even today the blame for the loss of Rebeka's life has remained an orphan and justice rests on a file that demands legal responsibility, on the one who is guilty of the tragedy that occurred on the coast of Saranda, in mid-September, three years ago.
What we will tell you below is one of the stories not only of the law's dysfunction in a country like Albania that hosts millions of tourists, but where often those who are the first to break the law are state officials.
Initially included in institutions and then involved in criminal activities.
As is the case of Saimir Kushova, the person known to be responsible for the loss of Rebeka's life, who, while under investigation in Albania, not only avoided trial, but also fled the country by moving to Norway, on bail.
Where it turns out that he was involved in international drug trafficking.
But before we get to the profile of former police officer Saimir Kushova, who was also the administrator of the underwater diving company 'Spiranca Diving Center' that Rebeka and his friends trusted, let's first stop at what happened to the group of foreign tourists who had arrived in Saranda.
What went wrong in their exploration and what is the mistake that led to the loss of life of 29-year-old Rebeka Gannon?
According to the dynamics built by the investigative group, the first report of the loss of life of a diver at sea arrived at the Saranda police operations room on the morning of September 19, 2022.
According to this announcement, a group of tourists of different nationalities had set off with an Albanian guide to a previously designated point in the sea to practice the sport of underwater diving, and there one of the foreign citizens lost her life.
Investigation File:
On September 19, 2022, the Saranda Police Operations Room received a report that a British citizen had drowned in neighborhood No. 1 of the city.
Initial information indicated that on the morning of this date, a group of foreigners of various nationalities contacted the diving center and then scheduled a time to practice diving.
Among this group was British citizen, Rebeka Diane Gannon.
After registering and wearing the necessary diving equipment, she was thrown into the sea, but drowned and could not survive.
The cause is suspected to have been a malfunction of the air vest.
Given the fact that the distance from the seashore to the scene of the incident was not far, judicial police officers suspected that something had gone wrong with the diving equipment the victim was equipped with in this case.
Meanwhile, in the open sea, they found the rest of the crew and the group of foreigners traumatized. The latter had witnessed Rebeka's tragic drowning. But they also confessed to the lack of professionalism of the Albanian team of instructors.
After judicial police officers went to the scene, between the Alfa and Opal bars, 17 meters above the sea surface, they found several people on a speedboat.
Inside this boat, several materials were taken as evidence, specifically a plastic shovel, a hood that covers the neck and upper part of the head.
The inspection then continued inside the boat that was used to transport divers to the sea, located in the Sea Port of Saranda.
Where on the top of this boat was found a black plastic box with numbers on the outside.
And inside these boxes are arranged clothing and foot paddles, like those used for diving into deep waters.
Meanwhile, in the back of the boat, on its floor, a tank was found, as well as a vest like those that secure the tank to the diver's body.
That these were also taken as material evidence.
But what would be further discovered by the investigative group was the unprofessional manner in which the Albanian agency that dealt with marine exploration, licensed in the sport of underwater diving, had behaved in accordance with safety protocols at sea.
This is also due to the fact that one of the instructors who was part of the expedition had a different profession than the one she was engaged in on the day the tragedy at sea occurred. The instructor who was involved with the equipment, even today it is not known whether she was licensed to do such a thing.
She also dealt with Rebeka, while the latter expressed concern that her air vest was not functional. GB, who in her testimony before the investigation group admitted that the diving equipment had problems.
Citizen G. B, a translator and employee of the agency, after explaining the diving site to the foreign tourists and preparing the equipment that the divers would take with them, further explained that Rebeka had DG and A. K as instructors.
She says that when she was assembling the device, the regulator for inflating the vest was not working. For this reason, she says she was forced to change the regulator, and after testing it twice, the device, according to her, worked and was fine.
But while she thought the vest's regulator was functional, what happened next proved otherwise. This is because just a few seconds after the group was submerged, including Rebeka, she saw the British girl in the distance calling for help.
Where she realized that something had gone wrong with the 29-year-old. GB admitted that at the moment the tragedy was taking place at sea, she was on shore, despite being a diving equipment instructor.
G. B says that just a few minutes after the group of foreigners had dived, she saw one of the divers calling for help.
What forced her to immediately head towards the place where the diver was seeking help, which was only 30 meters from where she, as an instructor, was standing.
After arriving at the location where the diver was, G. B indicates that she had removed the regulator from her mouth, which is not allowed according to the diving protocol that must be followed.
But even though the instructor claimed that she had performed the entire procedure correctly in such cases, as defined by the sport of diving, it seems that the facts show the opposite.
This is because the findings of the ongoing investigation group left no doubt that the violations were serious and even led to the loss of the British tourist's life.
This is also evident in the testimonies of the rest of the group of instructors present that morning as part of the sea expedition.
Statements that are contradictory and contradict each other. Even with those of the foreign tourists who were present on the diving expedition that went wrong.
Like the testimony of Rebeka's boyfriend, who told the investigative group that their instructor G. B. did not give any special importance to the equipment. Showing a disregard or an excessive confidence that resulted fatally in the future. / In Target
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