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The Supreme Court in Quebec, Canada has rejected Albania's request for the extradition of Úngjëll Brahim, who was sentenced in our country to life imprisonment for the murder of a policeman and his 8-year-old son 20 years ago.
The Canadian court accepted the request made by Brahimi himself, who asked not to be extradited to Albania.
Úngjël Brahimi has been living in Canada for a long time and is known by the name Piro Kota.
Judge Alexandre Boucher ruled Thursday that there were problems with the evidence presented, including that there were no guarantees in the extradition request that witnesses from the 2001 trial are still available.
Another problem, the judge said, involved the main witness, the police officer's widow, and the evidence she gave more than two decades ago.
During the trial, the widow identified the person who shot her husband through a set of four photos produced by the police six months after the murder. The photo lineup cannot now be found, Boucher noted as he handed down his decision in the Montreal court.
"Simply put, the lineup provided in the extradition request does not match the lineup described by the witness in her testimony," Boucher said.
"Additional evidence also proved that the photo lineup presented during the trial in Albania was insufficient. It contained only four photographs with the suspect's photograph standing out from the others.
"The evidence is so damaged and so unbelievable that extradition would be a miscarriage of justice," the judge said.
The two defense lawyers of Úngjël Brahimi also expressed their satisfaction with this decision.
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