
Journalist Igli Çelmeta has provided details of the serious crime that occurred the day before at the Court of Appeals in Tirana, where judge Astrit Kalaja was executed.
" The author of this serious incident, 30-year-old Elvis Shkambi, together with his uncle, Gjon Shkambi, had a court hearing at 2:00 PM at the Court of Appeals. They appeared at this court 20 minutes before the hearing, and at the entrance where citizens participating in court hearings enter, they passed the metal scanner with detector. Although the scanner pulsed and signaled the presence of metal devices, the two passed together, but the security officer, sitting in a chair according to the video footage seized by the Tirana Police, did not take any action and did not physically check them.
Then the two entered the premises of the Court of Appeal and stayed for about 1 hour and 45 minutes in the lobby where citizens stay and in the courtyard outside the court, after the session that was supposed to start at 14:00 started at 15:30, with a delay of 1 hour and 30 minutes, the reason for which is still unknown. During these approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, the perpetrator of the serious incident, armed with a firearm, together with his uncle, remained undisturbed and calm in the premises of the Court of Appeal, moving in and out. The perpetrator even appeared several times on security cameras smoking cigarettes and talking on the phone.
At 3:30 p.m., the judge in the case, the late Astrit Kalaja, called the plaintiff and defendants to the hearing and in three minutes gave the verdict against the Shkambi family. The moment the late judge walked out the door of the courtroom, in room number three, and after the verdict passed into the corridor, the 30-year-old took out his firearm and shot him with four bullets, unfortunately leaving him dead. Meanwhile, the other party, Elvis and Ragip Kurtaj, who were in court with the Shkambi family, hit the author with a bullet and left him wounded; however, the author, with the firearm in his hand, passed into the corridor calmly, not running, but walking slowly. He appeared in the courtyard of the Court of Appeals and there handed the weapon to a court officer, telling the latter to notify the state police, because he would wait for him there and would not leave. The firearm also had three bullets in the chamber. There are strong suspicions from the investigation team that the perpetrator committed the incident deliberately, with the aim of executing Judge Astrit Kalaj.
If the judge were to rule against them, since the perpetrator had left the other party wounded, whom he shot only once and still had three bullets in his pistol that he did not use, he went outside the courtyard and handed the weapon to the court clerk, waiting for the arrival of the police. The police arrived about three minutes after being notified by the officers of the Court of Appeal; at the moment the uniforms approached the courtyard, they did not know who the perpetrator was. The latter called out to them: “Come here, because I am the perpetrator of the judge’s murder,” and then he was handcuffed, escorted to Police Station No. 1 and then to the Local Police Directorate of Tirana.
The role of the security guard was referred to as abuse of duty, he was arrested because the footage shows that he did not get up from his chair at all and did not even follow the moment when the uncle and nephew passed the scanner. The 30-year-old's uncle was also arrested, because the review of the security cameras shows that he did not take any action to stop his nephew who raised his gun and shot at Judge Astrit Kalaj; when they left the courtroom, the uncle accompanied his nephew without any disturbance and waited in the courtyard of the Court of Appeals , "Igli Çelmeta reported.
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