Elham Elezaj, Rufan Hakrama and Artan Cuku, 3 police officers who have fallen on duty, have been declared Martyrs of the Fatherland, will be exhumed and buried again in the Martyrs' Cemetery.
Exhumation procedures will be followed these days, while on May 5 they will be buried in the Martyrs' Cemetery, and the state will honor them with a ceremony. They are buried in Sharra and Tufina. On May 5 there will be a ceremony at the Police Academy.
The murder of Elham Elezaj
On July 9, 1998, RENEA forces reported that a person had taken hostage members of a family, including women and children. The hostage-taker, Gëzim Kërçuku, was a facility policeman. The hostage family had left their sister on their wedding day. On July 9, Elham Elezi was ready, it was the last day in that position, after he was appointed chief of the police station in Saranda, on July 10 he would appear in the new position.
Colleagues confess that Elhami went into action without a bulletproof vest, joined his colleagues and surrounded the building in the area of Oxhak in Tirana, an uninhabitable house. The operation lasted until nightfall, the hostage-taker did not respond to calls to surrender and fired. He was hiding behind a washing machine, and in the absence of lighting, he shot leaving Elham Elezaj dead. Elham Elezaj took part in some of the most difficult operations of 1997, highlighting the action that followed the Cërrik massacre, where 6 guards were killed. Elham Elezaj is remembered as the effective who arrested the gang leader Zani Çaushi. He lost his life at the age of 29.
The murder of Artan Cuk
Former Chief Commissioner Artan Cuku was executed at gunpoint at the entrance to the artificial lake on April 8, 2017. Prosecution investigations revealed that the cause of the murder of former Commissioner Artan Cuku was revenge, as at the time he held the post of police director Vlora, reopened a sensational murder in this district and handcuffed the killer Bledar Jambelli, who was surprisingly later released by the court. Artan Cuku was declared "Martyr of the Fatherland" on April 9, 2019, a title that was handed over to his wife by Interior Minister Sander Lleshaj.