
In today's episode of "Exclusive" by Anila Hoxha, eyes and attention were turned back in time, but in an event that her wounds will never close to family members... The murder of Matilda Owl in 1997, in the courtyard of her apartment.
She was only 13 years old when a bullet pierced her body and left her dead.
“… Her dream was to be a nurse, then she told me I'd be a singer. He told me when I became a doctor you'd get sick and Grandpa would make you needles I... I'll be a doctor and I'll tell you to heal," confesses Gem.
None of Matilda's wishes and dreams were fulfilled. The child was killed at the age of 13, in the garden of the house. Matilda was in sixth grade when in 1997 a bullet fired from a police officer's gun killed her.
"This is my heart, my soul has broken us. I don't know how much she stressed us out, even when I think about it falling... He looked at this shirt, the evil of your soul (kiss the shirt), the heart of your mother, the bullet came in here, from here on his arm he scratched it, it came out in his heart. From justice we have not received any kind of answer, we have sent letters, we will find the right, we will find the one who killed him when they called me in Elbasan. I told you when I was asleep, don't wake me up, find out who the policeman is, you're the state, I wasn't gonna run into it. You killed me, I was home, why shy away from the house and you don't shoot from the side of the van. The child was solving the cow, the bullets were running. They were trying to stop the van. I took out two loans, I got my lawyer in Tirana, I got eight million leks, once I got five. We want so much money, we just do the work," she said.
Time runs relentlessly for Matilda's parents who in 27 years have not received answers as to who killed their daughter. The child's body rests a few meters away from the house, in the garden where law enforcement bullets fired at perpetrators of 1997 events cut off Matilda's life. The manipulated investigation never showed who the Peqin police officer who killed him out of carelessness was.
In the face of the family's prayers, the prosecution has moved on and has opened the case again.
"Since our house is above the police station, the shots came from the police station and while our father works in the garden and hears "my father killed me," what to see only blood. They take him and the police to the hospital, impossible. They covered it up because there was a hand of a great man, not a policeman, to give his hand to a great one, they covered it, Mond Koseni was the chief commissioner" confesses the father of the 13-year-old.
"We and the day they killed us, after three days, people continued drinking coffee here. Mond Kosen was in the office, he told his father-in-law, "My son is very stressed, and my son knows how to deal with, come and calm my son down. You come to apologize to me, make me sad, we went with my father-in-law..." matilada's mother says.
Sidorela Memolla, family lawyer: I have written to the local police directorate of Elbasan, to put me in the fascist year of 1997, to see how the event happened. I also asked the police to make available to me what happens to this criminal proceeding, is the reason why it was suspended. If suspended resume investigations, to find the perpetrators and compensate the family.
Anila Hoxha: What work was investigated for?
Sidorela Memolla: Murder by negligent. Since a van has passed they have taken action. Since the house is in front of the police station, one of the perpetrators threw grenades, in these conditions one of the police went to the other side and shot him. They said they heard screaming and they were the family members calling for help. The prosecution has made a decision to repeal the 1997 decision, justifying it by the prosecutor, and we have had questions as to why the case was not revealed. The prosecutor says no exact location of the incident was examined, no distance from where he was shot or the shooting angle was determined, and the distance resulted 350 meters.
Jewels Owl: I killed my girls at home, or bring my daughter like I left her at home or deal with the police. I have no business with the police.