The Tirana Court has officially declared the 49-year-old Palestinian, Fadi Alwan, accused of murdering his daughter, Rayyan Alwai, 22, a fugitive.
The event occurred in February 2025 in Tirana.
The court's decision was made after the Lebanese judiciary refused to extradite to Albania the suspected perpetrator, who was arrested in Lebanon on April 23, 2025.
Through a letter dated 18.09.2025, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs informed that the Republic of Lebanon refused to extradite 49-year-old Alwai to Albania.
After the event, the Albanian justice system imposed the security measure of "prison arrest" on the Palestinian for "murder due to family circumstances", a measure that cannot be executed and for this reason the court declared him a fugitive.
22-year-old Rayyan Alwai was found dead in a daily rental apartment in Tirana. Verifications showed that she had entered Albania from Rinas on February 19th with her father, while the latter had left without her on February 22nd, 2025.
How did the incident happen?
The father and daughter came from Germany to Tirana in February 2025. The murder occurred in the apartment they rented and was discovered a few days later by the apartment owner, after the man had fled to Lebanon.
The motives for this serious crime still remain a mystery. The young mother of 3 children was divorced, and the little ones lived in Lebanon with their father. In Germany, Rayyan Alwan started a new life, and her approach to Western traditions is suspected to have caused the 24-year-old's ongoing problems with her family, parents and brothers. The girl had also filed a complaint with the police in Germany about these concerns.
Investigators still suspect that her mother was involved in the plan to kill the girl, however, convincing evidence is still lacking for this lead.
Since February, the young woman's body had been in the Tirana morgue, and was only retrieved a few days ago by a lawyer from Lebanon, while she was accompanied to her last residence by her two brothers in Germany, where she is buried.
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