4 years after the massacre where Brilant Martinaj and two others were killed, the Kosovar who brought the 'Passat' of crime is being questioned!

2026-03-29 13:12:12Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
4 years after the massacre where Brilant Martinaj and two others were killed,
Above left, the site of the assassination of Brilant Martinaj and his two friends. On the right, Besmir Hoxha, Dikler Vata and Brilant Martinaj. Below left, former police officer Jeton Lami, on the right, Ervis Martinaj

Almost 4 years after the massacre at the Fushë-Krujë overpass, where Briland Martinaj, Diklen Vata and Besmir Hoxha were killed, the Tirana police and prosecution continue their investigations, managing to identify a person from Kosovo, who appears to have brought the car used in the triple murder from Germany to Kosovo.

The "Passat" type vehicle was identified as having been brought from Germany to the state of Kosovo, and then the person who brought the car into this country indicated that he left it to his father, who then continued to sell it to an Albanian citizen, whom he was unable to remember.

The investigations conducted have revealed that the same vehicle entered the territory of Albania on an unspecified date and by unidentified persons. It was later used in the incident of July 17, 2022, where at the Fushë-Krujë overpass, Ervis Martinaj's uncle's son, Briland Martinaj, and his two friends from the village of Fushë-Kuqe, Diklen Vata and Besmir Hoxha, were killed.

The Kosovar citizen, after committing the massacre with 3 people killed, appears to have entered Albania several times. He has been kept under surveillance by the criminal police, to learn about the places he would frequent in Albania and the people he would meet. From all the surveillance, the police have not managed to obtain any compromising data or meetings with the people who are suspected of being implicated in this serious event.

But despite this, the Tirana police have decided to accompany the Kosovar citizen and question him.

Journalist Elton Qyno has learned the name of this person, but due to the circumstances of the investigation, his identity cannot be made public.

This person has given explanations to the Tirana police, admitting that he brought the car used in the triple murder from Germany to Kosovo. 

He left the "Passat" vehicle with his father in Kosovo and left for Germany again. On the other hand, the police questioned the father and he stated that he sold the vehicle to a person from Albania, whom he was unable to identify.

The sale of the car was carried out without a notarial legal act, which raises strong suspicions that the movements were carried out with the aim of losing track of the person who took the vehicle.

After questioning, the two father and son were released by the Tirana police, without charging them with even “Providing the conditions and means to commit murder.” Currently, regarding this serious incident, the Tirana police and prosecution are at this “crossroads,” as they have been unable to find the buyer without the car’s papers and the vehicle’s entry into Albania.

The “Passati” is suspected of having “cracked” the Morina border crossing point in Kukës, without being registered in the TIMS border system. The vehicle has been given the license plates “AA 156 OR” belonging to a “Daimler Chrysler” type car in the name of a citizen with the initials, AL, who in 2021 had reported the stolen targets to the police, writes Elton Qyno.

Meanwhile, the silhouette of this vehicle was only seen on July 17, 2022, where it was used by a team of people in the triple murder.

The former officer of the operational team at the State Police, Jeton Lami, was also questioned about the incident in question.

Lami was questioned just a few days after being released from prison, revealing that some time before the incident, he was not the driver who accompanied Briland Martinaj in the village of Larushk in Fushë-Krujë.

Simultaneously, dozens of people with criminal records were questioned about this event, who gave their own claims.

Two of them, during questioning, stated that when the crime occurred, they were on vacation on the island of Corfu in Greece.

How did the incident happen?

At noon on July 17, 2022, on the main road connecting Fushë-Kruja with Tirana, an ambush was made on a car in which three young men, Besmir Hoxha, Brilant Martinaj and Dikler Vata, were traveling.

Some people have macabrely executed the 3 young men, also burning the car in which they were traveling.

One of them, Dikler Vata, got out of the injured vehicle trying to escape, but the perpetrators turned around and shot him again, making sure they killed him. The target of the assassination, according to sources from the investigation group, is Brilant Martinaj, first cousin of the businessman involved in several criminal events, Ervis Martinaj.

The first suspects in the serious incident have also been identified for the assassination.

Endrit Dokle and Ramazan Rraja were questioned, as well as Gentian Reci, Fation Murati, Alesio Dobrozi and Rohan Brahimi.

These people are the main suspects in the Fushë Krujë massacre, a macabre event related to a gang clash in the Kurbin area. However, no one has been arrested for the incident yet.


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