The brothers Edmond and Xovani Gocaj and Myrezim Zeneli on the one hand and Kujtim Verracaku on the other hand, were killed on June 27, 2021 after a conflict over placing umbrellas on the beach in front of their hotels in Velipoja.
In an interview for the Uniko show from Spartak Koka to Klan Plus, Pjetër Gocaj, the father of the murdered Gocaj brothers, says that the massacre would not have happened if the surveyors had waited to determine the division of the plots on the beach.
The surveyors went 1 week after the tragedy. Pjetër Gocaj was informed that the plot that his family had, but that the other side of the Verracaku family was looking for, did not belong to any of them, but had been given to another business.
Conversation :
Pjetër Gocaj : They invented the conflict themselves because I didn't have a conflict. What did those who came to surround my hotel want? How good the days have come and I went to him for whatever needs we had, as a friend and as a friend.
Spartak Kok a: Have you had entrances and exits?
Pjetër Gocaj: Posi, I had a lot of company.
Spartak Koka: Did they talk to you about the work on the parcel problem?
Pjeter Gocaj: Absolutely. Only the child communicated. I told him that we will release the plot because it was given to him by the state, we do not go beyond the state. When the surveyors come to measure it...
Spartak Koka: At the moment when the event happened, how did the 27th come in, did the typographers come?
Pjeter Gocaj: No. The surveyors came after 7 days.
Spartak Koka: What have the topographers determined?
Pjetër Gocaj: They did the measurements and said whose are these umbrellas? Of these who have been killed. They told this 7-story, it's yours. Not theirs.
Spartak Koka: It belongs to this other.
Pjetër Gocaj: Then the police called me from 23:00 at night, what are you going to do with the tents that were put up when they had the children before the event. I was staying with my sister-in-law. He got on the phone, what are you going to do with these tents because we have to move them. Theirs didn't come out, you were killed in vain, someone else's came out.
Spartak Koka: So neither the plot that they claimed and you had applied for was neither yours nor his?
Pjeter Gocaj: No.
Spartak Head: Was it someone else's?
Pjeter Gocaj: Someone else's! If they had waited for the separation, they would all be safe today. We only had to wait for the arrival of the surveyors' measurements./ Klan