New details have emerged regarding the serious incident that occurred in Ksamil, where a 20-year-old Portuguese man was killed. A2 CNN journalist Igli Çelmeta reports that the conflict began inside a bar between two French citizens, after an argument about the harassment of a girl. Bodyguard Sokrat Vata intervened in the conflict, while the Portuguese citizen was later involved, who remained a victim of the incident.
According to sources, Vata stabbed the Portuguese citizen, causing serious injuries that claimed his life on the spot. Another foreign citizen was also injured during the conflict.
After the incident, the victim was taken out of the bar and left near the sun loungers until the police arrived.
"The Saranda Police, specifically the Saranda Police Station, continues its investigations to clarify the serious incident that occurred in the early hours of this morning, where a Portuguese tourist was stabbed to death. The perpetrator of this incident has been arrested, citizen Sokrat Vata, a bodyguard at the bar where the fight initially began. According to police sources, the fight initially started inside the bar where two foreign citizens, two French, were in conflict with each other due to the harassment of a woman. The bar's bodyguard then intervened to separate them. At these moments, the Portuguese citizen also entered the conflict and became a victim. The conflict then escalated outside the premises of the bar where it is suspected that 29-year-old Sokrat Vata stabbed the Portuguese citizen, leaving him dead on the spot. Police sources even indicate that a French citizen who was initially involved with a fellow countryman, was also slightly wounded in the leg with a knife. each other. After the incident, the perpetrator of this serious incident, Sokrat Vata, fled in a vehicle with two Turkish citizens, a woman and a Turkish man, who stated to the police that they knew the perpetrator of the murder and kept him as a bodyguard behind them and for this reason helped him to leave, but the escape lasted very little after the police located and arrested them in Levan, Fier", Çelmeta reported.
According to police sources, those present at the scene were police officers who work second jobs, as bodyguards in bars in the south of the country and in Saranda.
"And this police officer has been questioned by the Saranda police station together with the Police Supervision Agency, as it is suspected that he did not report the crime and helped the perpetrator of the incident to escape, after killing the Portuguese tourist ," the journalist reported.
A total of 38 people have been escorted by the Saranda police station and other arrests are expected in connection with this serious incident.
"The suspicions are that the bodyguards who worked in this bar where the serious incident occurred were recruited by the former administrator of the club, where the conflict occurred two days ago where the head of the crimes department of the Saranda police station was raped. So, these are the same bodyguards who work in two different bars in the south of the country, as well as police officers who serve as a second job, that is, as bodyguards in clubs," Çelmeta emphasized.
The investigation team continues its work to fully clarify the circumstances and document the event.
"Regarding further investigations into the murder of the Portuguese man, the perpetrator is also expected to be questioned, who initially refused to give evidence ," the journalist stressed./ A2 CNN