The former Director General of the State Police, Gledis Nano, revealed unknown details about the operation to return Alvin Berisha from the Al-Hol camp in Syria on the Top Story show yesterday evening.
According to Nano, the decision to launch the mission was taken in the office of the then Interior Minister, Sandër Lleshaj. He said that the initiative came after Alvvin Berisha's father had traveled to the Al-Hol camp with the Italian investigative show Le Iene, where he had managed to meet his son.
"In the office, together with the director general at the time, the minister turned to me: 'What would you do if your son were in the camp?' I told him that I would go to the camp, but with one difference: "I would take the son." He laughed and said, "how would you take him?" I told him, I know how to do this job," confessed Nano, who at the time was the director of Anti-Terrorism at the State Police.
After this, the immediate departure of the mission was decided. He asked for two people to head to Lebanon, one of whom was Gladis Nano herself.
"At that time, we had established contacts and had carried out a preparatory phase with our consul general in Lebanon. We made preparations together with the other colleague and we set off. We had no support force, no weapons with us, nothing. The consul was waiting for us there and had established contacts with the security institutions. He created the opportunity for us with an escort group," said Nano.
The operation to return the minor from the Al-Hol camp is one of the most sensitive and important interventions of the Albanian authorities in an area with high security risk.
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