26 years have passed since that day, but Nazmie Toskaj still has the pain of the terrible news about the murder of her son, Araniti, fresh.
The 23-year-old, who had been part of the Rapid Intervention Force for no more than 1 and a half months, was killed by a bomb on a night in early August. His mother's tears have not dried up over the loss of her son, who today is a martyr of the Motherland.
"Aran Toskaj's mother: On a dark night on August 1, 1997, a family asked for help because a gang had gone to kidnap their daughter for an organ transplant. In cooperation with other police officers, they caught her, but they threw a bomb and bombs took my son's life, along with the other criminal." - said Nazmie Toskaj.
Aranitis was young, still unmarried. Nazmie's mother could not dress him as a groom, she dressed him in the uniform of the policeman who took his life very quickly.
"Aran Toskaj's mother: How will it be experienced when the son runs away? 23 years old, he had not done it yet, as I said there is no bride for you, my mother. I made him a bridegroom with the clothes of the State Police. My son was lost, we were honored , they respected us, the guild came every time." - said Toskaj for Report TV.
Nazmie Toskaj has only one hostage, she asked for the boy's name to be engraved in a school, but she never succeeded.
"Aran Toskaj's mother: I asked a lot for my son's name to be given to a school, I asked a lot and I am sad in my soul and heart that he gave his life for the police and the name was not given to a school." - said Toskaj.
Nazmie Toskaj, as the mother of a police martyr, receives a modest pension from the state.
"Received a pension, 7 thousand new lek as the mother of a police martyr." - says Aran Toskaj's mother:
She was present this Wednesday at the promotion of the book "The Fallen", dedicated to 422 fallen in the line of duty or for duty in the State Police. In 2 volumes, the authors Hilë Lushaku and Bajram Ibraj have documented all the loss of policemen's lives from 1990 to today.