Disturbing scenarios are unfolding around the injury of Fatos Cenaj, a 59-year-old Albanian living in Italy, a former police officer respected in Albania for many years.
In recent hours , the hypothesis of an involuntary shot fired from a rifle by a local resident with the aim of testing a new weapon has been dismissed. Traces of an ambush are gaining ground.
The area where the incident took place on Sunday morning, June 8, shortly after eight o'clock in via Casoni Basse in Fontaniva is in the middle of the village. In fact, an ideal place to hit and run without being noticed. The hypothesis is being investigated that a car approached the 59-year-old from behind while he was riding his bicycle to go to work on a nearby farm, about two kilometers from his home.
From the window, a hitman may have shot him at close range until he fell to the ground. The wound at ear level is almost invisible. This would suggest the use of a sporting pistol.
What is hypothesized is that Fatos Cenaj during his career "stepped on the toes" of some high-profile criminal, who, years later, organized someone to take revenge on him. Now it remains to be seen whether the former guardian of the law will survive. His condition is still critical. He is in a reserved prognosis in danger of life.
Those who know him and his family rule out other previous disputes. In short, the 59-year-old in Italy and specifically in Fontaniva, had no enemies. Investigators are trying through careful technical activity to intercept all the telephone lines that at the time of the assassination attempt had been connected to Fontaniva's cells and specifically those in the vicinity of Via Casoni Basse. An area where it is easy to reach by car and leave undisturbed.