Sidorel Prendi was suspected of being involved in numerous enmities with well-known characters of the criminal world in Kurbin, Lezhë and Fushë-Kruje. Some of these clashes are related to territory, large debts, or broken bargains.
"Organized Crime is involved in drug trafficking in Albania and beyond, since in order to commit those crimes and hide them, money is required and through narcotics the appropriate means are provided to then cover the crimes of murder or revenge to eliminate similar groups" - said Dea Toçi, lawyer.
"We are dealing with characters who are very individualistic, somewhere the individuality of these characters will come out and I have the impression that in this case Rohan Ibrahimi wanted to be different" - said Xhevahir Zhabina, journalist.
Sidorel Prendi, born on March 14, 1992 in the village of Plana in Lezha, with family roots in Kruja, was a well-known name for the police. In September 2014, he became the target of a structured criminal group from Mirdita. Seven people planned to kidnap and execute him, but thanks to the reaction of the police, which under the direction of the former Prosecutor's Office for Serious Crimes, intervened in time by arresting the persons involved.
The operation took place on the Lezhë-Kurbin axis, where the assassins had targeted Sidorel Prendi's car. For two weeks, Sidorel Prendi was followed in Tirana and Lezha. The objective was clear: his elimination. At the time, 22 years old, "Sidi" was not just the victim of a banal conflict, but the target of a well-organized order.
"He is a person who has been rumored as a participant or organizer and financier of several criminal events, where important characters of the criminal world of the area of Lezha, Kurbin and Fushë-Kruja were executed, and he is a person who had his enmities" - said the lawyer, Alban Qafa.
"Here it has become a conglomerate and a vicious circle that many people can be convicted, many proceedings can be started or people can be taken as defendants, but it is very difficult to break the chain of blood feuds, since now the blood feud that in fact even with the canon this is not a blood feud, because you cannot kill the other with the hand of the world, blood feud is something else', said the lawyer, Ermal Hamataj.
After attempting to be taken hostage and eliminated, Prendi established connections by acting on behalf of several criminal groups. Due to a debt, in 2020 he got into an open conflict with Ervis Martinaj, who at that time was considered the "King of Gambling".
In the dark world of crime, deals are not made on paper. They are stamped with words, guaranteed with a face and, when the word is broken, there is no turning back. The story of the clash between Sidorel Prendi and Ervis Martinaj is the story of a betrayal that was shattered, then turned into a war of no return.
"We have discussed information that we have with sources, we are not able to verify it using documents or accessing these documents. The conflict was fierce between the two at the beginning, of course then the whole chain of murders began", said journalist Xhevahir Zhabina.