Elton Mermali had long since been drawn to his loneliness. Once, a loyal soldier of Aldo Bares gang, he had already considered separation from the outside world, just like the night before he disappeared, where his last meeting would be with his mother, whom he told he would went to the garden and that he would be back soon as she accompanied him to the door.
This is because his body was found only the day after his disappearance by the Shkumbin River, far away from his hometown, or probably the place of execution. While the darkness of the night and the wind that accompanied that October evening, wiped away with it as a shadow even the killers.
But who killed Elton Mermal who now bears the name Alban Semaku, the soldier of the Lushnja Gang, the last victim of the defeated army of Aldo Bares, the head of the infamous criminal organization, who was already watching from the cell how one of the one all his soldiers left outside the prison bars?
Elton Mermali had long since left home very little. If not, to say the least.
It is not known if this was a fear that accompanied him everywhere, or if the dark past had left its mark on his consciousness. What is known was that recently before he was killed he had become very silent, where he hardly spoke to anyone. He came out of his house in Lushnje that evening so silent.
The only words he uttered to his mother as he crossed the threshold of the apartment was "prepare dinner for her, as he would be back soon." His mother waited for him until morning.
The day after his sudden disappearance, a lifeless body, shot with one bullet in the head and two in the back, was found with its back turned to the side of the Shkumbin River. Residents told police the victim was not on their side, raising suspicions among police authorities that the killing had taken place elsewhere. But soon, any dilemma over the identity of the corpse would fade away.
The body shot by the bullets on the side of the river would turn out to be exactly that of Elton Mermal.
It would be his mother who would recognize his son's body in the morgue of the Elbasan hospital.
The 38-year-old from Lushnja, but that his life after his release from prison was spent alone. A problematic character from the underworld, who had previously served 13 years in prison, on murder charges who had once been a member of the Lushnja gang, led by Aldo Bare.
His assassination, which brought back to the scene the bloody eliminations that had already been undertaken by rivals, who after a long time in silence, had been reactivated even more powerfully, to avenge their relatives eliminated from Aldo's gang Bares.
The gang that started its activity in the black year of 1997 and that had produced over the years countless opponents and victims in the ranks of both sides.
The latest, Elton Mermali with the changed name Alban Semaku, who was identified in the morgue of the city of Elbasan, by his mother.
Testimony of Elton Mermal's mother
" Recently, Elton did not even hold a phone. He was associated with some boys he had friends with since childhood.
He left the house very little. It did not last long. He stayed only 10-15 minutes outside and returned home. "We always asked him what he had, but he did not speak ."