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Killed the crime boss in Fier and his 8-year-old son/ Canadian court decides that Çengjëll Ibrahimi will not be extradited to Albania!

2025-12-08 14:42:58Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Killed the crime boss in Fier and his 8-year-old son/ Canadian court decides
Angel Brahim

The Court of Appeal in Canada has ruled that Çngjëll Brahim , accused of the murder of police officer Astrit Braçe and his son in Fier, will not be extradited from Canada.

The incident occurred in 2000, and since then Brahimi has been living in Canada where he was hiding under the identity Piro Kota . 

Foreign media reports that the court did not find sufficient evidence to order his extradition to Albania.

"The judge rightly considered that the evidence as a whole was not sufficient to order imprisonment," the decision issued Friday in Montreal said.

Angel Brahimi, 62, no longer has to worry about returning to Eastern Europe, where he faces a long prison sentence in connection with the bloody murder of a senior police officer and his 8-year-old child, which occurred 25 years ago.

Massacre with automatic weapons

According to Albanian authorities, Brahimi wanted revenge for the death of his brother, so he allegedly targeted the head of investigations for a district, while the latter was going to the beach with his family.

"An Audi vehicle emerged from a small wooded area and ambushed them," the court document states. "A man emerged carrying an automatic firearm. He fired several shots [...]."

An 8-year-old child died in the attack, while the police officer managed to escape. However, one of the attackers found him near a river, where he was executed.

The deceased's wife identified Brahim almost five months later through a photograph.

Albanian authorities then tried to arrest the suspect, but he had already fled, first to Greece, then to Canada, where he even obtained citizenship.

However, Brahim's past caught up with him and he was found. His legal team managed to show that the trial held in Albania had been wrong.

"The evidence is so flawed and unreliable that extradition would be a miscarriage of justice," explained Judge Alexandre Boucher in 2023, noting that during the trial there, the deceased's wife even contradicted herself by choosing the wrong photo to identify the suspect.

The Attorney General of Canada, acting on behalf of the Republic of Albania, had appealed the case, alleging several errors on the part of the judge. But at the end of the process, Quebec's highest court ruled that there had been no violation.

"He verified the sufficiency and reliability of the certified evidence presented in support of the extradition request," the Court of Appeal ruled. "He determined that it had a manifest defect and that there was a real risk that it was fundamentally flawed."

Furthermore, it was pointed out that even if Brahim's escape might have suggested that it was the behavior of a guilty person, it could also correspond to someone wanting to "avoid being unjustly accused."

Angel Brahimi was represented by criminal attorneys Andrew Barbacki, Jordan Trevick, and Sara Abdel-Malik.


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