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The Italian authorities have started the procedures for the extradition from Albania to Italy of 26-year-old Mergim Lazri, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of being an accomplice in the murder of the Italian architect Roberto Morttura. The event took place on the evening of June 7-8, 2021.
According to the two Italian prosecutors who investigated the file, Mergim Lazri was the main collaborator of the author, Emirjon Margjini. The court sentenced him on July 17, 2023. 4 months later, the 26-year-old was arrested in his apartment in Albania.
The event, which turned out to be tragic for the Italian family living in Piossasco, Turin, was recorded on June 9 when Emirjon Margjini, 29, Mergim Lazri, 24, and Flogert Syla, 26, entered the architect's house to steal. He was with his wife and 12-year-old son when they discovered that someone had entered their home. In an effort to prevent the robbery and to protect his family, one of the Albanians pointed a gun at him and shot him in the stomach, taking his life.
Exile Lazri is in the prison of Albania awaiting extradition, while the Italian police have been looking for him since July 17, 2023, when the sentence was taken.
The police had arrested Mergim Lazri as the author of the serious accident that occurred on January 4, 2023, on the Bulqizë-Maqellare axis on the Arbri road, which killed 3 people while 4 others were injured. Among the injured was Mergim Lazri, the driver of a Mercedes Benz car with English license plates which collided that evening with a Mercedes Benz 240 vehicle. The brothers Kujtim and Murat Istrefi lost their lives in the accident, as well as the wife of one of the victims (Kujtim) Lulzime Istrefi , 46 years old, from Maqellara. While Firuze Istrefi, who was a passenger in the Benz, and the two brothers Mërgim Lazri, 26 years old and Edison Lazri, 28 years old, and Kadrie Markeçi, were injured.
According to the Albanian authorities, Mërgim Lazri, who was in the car with his brother, was responsible for the accident.
The exile himself suffered fractures in both legs in this accident and was forced to be admitted to several hospitals. Following his movements in hospitals, the police tracked down the 26-year-old who was arrested only a few days ago. His arrest was made in the apartment in the area where he caused the accident.
"Lazri has never left. I was in contact with him immediately after the sentence and he was always at home ", explains the lawyer Antonio Genovese, who, quoted by the Italian media, adds: "Of course my client continues to repeat his innocence in the Mottura case "
The murder of the architect shocked the entire community of Piossasco, where the fifty-year-old lived. He had been sleeping on the first floor of his house with his wife and children the night he died. As soon as he heard the noise, he went outside, went downstairs and confronted the thieves. During the fight, Margjini shot him in the leg with a 22-caliber bullet, cutting his femoral artery. Mergim Lazri, according to the prosecution, stayed in the car in order to escape together with his accomplices.
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