New details from the murder of Frrok Lleshaj/ The saga of blood feud between tribes in 3 decades has produced 5 victims

2025-08-05 11:08:00, Kronika CNA

New details from the murder of Frrok Lleshaj/ The saga of blood feud between

He was returning with the cattle as every day, but Frrok Lleshaj did not manage to finish the journey home. Bullets from a pistol fired by unidentified persons took the life of the 65-year-old man who lived in the village of Paçram in Vau i Dejës. The police were notified at around 21:00 about the murder that occurred, but there are suspicions that the victim had been killed at least an hour earlier.

From the statements made so far, the neighbors have not heard any shots, which leaves doubts that the perpetrators took care to use a pistol with a silencer. It was one of the residents who found the body of the 65-year-old man with no signs of life and notified his wife, who then notified the police about the incident.

The main motive for the murder for the police remains that of blood feud. The feud between the Lleshaj family and two other families has produced 5 victims since the early 1990s. Frrok Lleshaj is the third to be killed after his son and brother in the early 1990s, while his cousin Dodë Lleshaj, with whom the conflict arose, and another citizen from Puka were also killed. It all started in 1991 when the 65-year-old's son was killed in Greece.

At the time, it was said that the young man was killed by the Greek police under unknown circumstances, but Frrok Lleshaj's family suspected that his cousins were involved in the incident. So a few years later, there are strong suspicions that the 65-year-old took his son's blood, thus killing his cousin Dodë Lleshaj. Despite the suspicions and accusations, Frrok Lleshaj never admitted authorship of this event.

Meanwhile, another conflict arose with a family from Puka. Frrok Lleshaj shot and killed another person, an event he admitted to in court and for which he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. From these two old and still unresolved feuds, Frrok Lleshaj's brother remains murdered.

With the 65-year-old man who was shot with a pistol on the evening of August 4, the number of victims due to blood feud reaches 5. The local police of Shkodra, which immediately arrived at the scene, began preliminary investigations through the working group established for this serious murder. The main suspicions of the murder of the 65-year-old are related to these two feuds, but so far there are no specific people detained by the officers.

The police have accompanied several people who may have knowledge of the murder as well as family members, but so far there is nothing concrete regarding the authorship of the event where Frrok Lleshaj was killed. The investigative group, under the direction of the prosecution, is working to fully shed light on this serious event that is suspected to have occurred as a result of a blood feud, but without excluding any other possible leads./ CNA