Who is Laert Haxhiu and how did the "career" of the cold-blooded killer begin

The much-wanted Laert Haxhiu has been extradited from the Greek state to our country. After the exchange of several letters of order between the Greek and Albanian states, an extradition agreement was reached from the Hellenic state to Albania, where he is expected to face the charges against him.

While he was arrested in Greece, Laert Haxhiu was deported today, after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lushnja massacre, where Jurgen Hoxha and Zamir Latifi were killed in a bar.

On September 11, 2017, in a bar in the city of Lushnje, Laert Haxhia and Orges Bilbili entered the bar where Zamir Latifi, Jurgen Hoxha, Xjulio Shkurti were located, to execute Shkurti, after the failure of the 2015 assassination attempt. Shkurti was the target of this massacre, who is Aldo Bare's nephew.

With a machine gun on their side, they entered shooting and left the two young men dead on the spot, while Skurti at this moment managed to escape as he was not there. The incident left Zamir Latifi and Jurgen Hoxha dead, while Marius Xhepexhiu, the owner of the bar where the two victims were, and a passerby were injured.

Who is Laert Haxhiu?

Two characters known to the Albanian law enforcement authorities. Involved in murder, injury, drug trafficking and threats, Laert Haxhiu is accused of killing Gerti Lala, one of the members of Aldo Bare's gang.

The event happened on July 8, 2010, and for this crime, Haxhiu was sentenced to 32 years in prison, but the Court of Appeal decided to release him for lack of evidence, and in 2015 he won in front of justice. But the period of peace for Haxhiu would last very little.

 

After being released from prison in late 2014, he was arrested in June 2015 after 1.2 kilograms of heroin was seized from his car. Haxhiu's courage was not lacking, since during the operation to capture him, he tried to escape from a wall, where he also broke his leg.

 

After being caught, Haxhiu told the Police that he thought he was being followed by Aldo Bare's men. But again he managed to be free, as the Durrës court sentenced him to only 17 months in prison. Likewise, Orges Bilbili and Laert Haxhiu are suspects for the assassination of Aldo Bare's nephew, Xjulio Shkurti, where Sajmo Xhelili was also injured.

 

In every information that was received about them, the State Police was on foot to catch the 2 most wanted. Even in September 2018, the RENEA Department and that of FNSH undertook an operation to capture Laert Haxhiu and Orges Bilbili in the village of Rremas in Divjakë, after they suspected that they were hiding there. Not only did the operation fail, but RENEA injured an elderly man who had come to the window to see what was happening. If for Haxhiu, two Policemen from different countries were engaged to handcuff him, but Orges Bilbili was arrested by chance in April 2020, when the whole country was under curfew due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The history of the Lushnje gang

The starting point of the bloody clashes between the gangs in Lushnje was the murder of Ramadan Shkurt, the brother of Alfred Shkurt (Aldo Bares), until then an effective member of the RENEA Forces. After the murder of his brother, Bare, in order to take revenge on the citizen Artur Daja, his companions, friends and relatives, created the so-called "Lushnje Gang".

Initially, Ilir Stergu, Afrim Hoxha, Arben Borici, Enver Boriçi, Enver Dondollaku, companions, friends and relatives of the defendant Aldo Bare and his brother Ramadan Shkurt, who were already killed, gathered in this group. Aldo Bare takes revenge on Artur Daja, who after executing him cuts off his head and kicks him in the streets of the city of Lushnje.

Involvement of the girlfriend in the criminal gang

While in all the events where it is said that Laert Haxhiu is involved, you cannot help but remember his girlfriend, Klea Gjata, who has also been accused of being an accomplice in several murders and assassinations.

Initially, in front of the judicial police officers, Klea Gjata said that she was involved without wanting to, but then the course of events took her and it was impossible to detach herself from her lover first, but also from the information she had managed to learn, since she was very close, with Laertes already described as a person of high social risk.