They took a 28-year-old man hostage and raped him/Two brothers and their cousin are arrested in Lezha

2026-07-20 14:04:00, Kronika CNA

They took a 28-year-old man hostage and raped him/Two brothers and their cousin

Three people have been arrested in Lezha after they forcibly took a 28-year-old man into a vehicle and raped him, claiming that he had not paid the rent for 2 vehicles taken from their premises.

Two brothers, RM, 28 years old and RM, 22 years old, as well as their cousin, citizen EM, 22 years old, were arrested.

According to the investigation, the three citizens transported the 28-year-old to a gas station in the village of Shenkoll, where they raped him and then left him on the street. The 28-year-old was transported to the regional hospital in Lezha, where he received the necessary medical assistance.

Police announcement:

Lezha

They forcibly took, in a vehicle, and raped a 28-year-old man, claiming that he had not paid the rent, for 2 vehicles taken from their property, 2 brothers (administrators of the property) and their cousin were arrested.

The vehicle in which the 28-year-old was forcibly taken and transported from Kruja to Lezha has been seized.

As a result of the rapid administration of a report by a 70-year-old man that his son, 28, had been forcibly taken into a vehicle and transported by several citizens, the services of the Lezha Police Commissariat enabled the identification, localization and capture, a few minutes after the report, of the 3 suspected perpetrators of the case, citizens RM, 28 years old and RM, 22 years old, brothers, as well as their cousin, citizen EM, 22 years old.

From the investigations so far, it is suspected that the 3 citizens, acting on their own initiative, forcibly took the 28-year-old man into a vehicle at a gas station in the village of Derven, claiming that the latter had not paid the money for 2 vehicles rented from the entity managed by the 2 arrested brothers.

The 3 citizens transported the 28-year-old to a gas station in the village of Shenkoll, where they raped him and then left him on the street.

The 28-year-old was transported to the Lezha regional hospital, where he received the necessary medical assistance and left for his apartment, out of danger to his life.

The procedural materials were referred to the Prosecutor's Office at the First Instance Court of General Jurisdiction in Lezha, for further action, for the criminal offenses of "Unlawful Deprivation of Liberty", "Self-Judgment" and "Other Intentional Damage", committed in collaboration.