
Journalist Xhensila Kodra has provided new details from the serious incident that occurred in Lozhan, Maliqi, where after a gunfight, a police officer was killed and another was injured.
The journalist described the dynamics of how the police managed to track down the much-wanted 43-year-old Violand Braçellari, who had been hiding for a long time in a wooded and isolated area. According to the journalist, it all started just the day before, after an argument between the perpetrator and a person employed by him.
Braçellari had built a hiding base in the Lozhani area, where he engaged in agricultural and livestock activities without falling on the authorities' radar.
According to the journalist, the author had started to create a stable or several stables with livestock in the Lozhani area and several greenhouses where he cultivated vegetables. He lived there alone with his mother.
The starting point that led to the discovery of the whereabouts of the wanted man was precisely a shepherd, whom the 43-year-old had hired just two weeks earlier.
"A shepherd who had been employed by him for 15 days was the starting point that led to the identification of this area by the police. The shepherd had asked to leave his workplace for a few hours to meet his parents. He had also asked for a sum of money that he owed him. This is where a fierce argument began between the two," the journalist revealed.
After demanding money for his work, Violand Braçellari lost control and threatened his worker with his life.
"He threatened to kill him to leave after the debate and under the threat that he would not give him any money for the 15 days of work. Scared, the shepherd went to the Korça police and reported him, but without knowing that he was dealing with a person wanted by the police. Under these conditions, the police conducted their searches in the system and it turned out that it was exactly the person wanted ," the journalist said on the "This Week" show on News24.
Following this information, the police organized an operation to arrest him, where fortunately one officer was killed on duty and another was injured.