Breaking news/ Police injure a person in Kurbin, here's what happened!

2026-05-19 15:51:07Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Breaking news/ Police injure a person in Kurbin, here's what happened!

A person has arrived injured at the Trauma Hospital in Tirana, after initially being sent for medical assistance to the Kurbin Hospital.

The injured man was shot by police during an intervention to neutralize him. The officers had information that the person was armed.

During the operation, one of the officers used his service weapon, injuring the person, who was then transported for specialized treatment to the Trauma Hospital.

Police announcement:

They attempted to ram a vehicle into officers of the Special Operations Force Directorate, endangering their lives. Two citizens were neutralized and arrested.

One of them was wanted, convicted in Italy for attempted murder, while the citizen accompanying him was armed.

During the neutralization, the 23-year-old wanted man was injured and transported to the Trauma Hospital.

The police have seized the firearm, a pistol, that was possessed by the citizen accompanying the wanted person.

Following the operations of the Special Operations Force Directorate, carried out after exchanging information and coordinating operational actions with international partners, with the aim of capturing wanted citizens, information has been provided on the location of the wanted citizen Leonard Dema, 23 years old, born in Mamurras, sentenced to 7 years in prison by the Court of Trento, for attempted murder.

During the operation to capture the wanted person, at the moment of the intervention, at a gas station on the "Mamurras-Laç" road axis, the 23-year-old, who was accompanied by citizen A. F, and was traveling by vehicle, as soon as he noticed the officers, attempted to hit them with his vehicle, endangering their lives, and the accompanying person pointed a firearm, a pistol, at the Police services.

Police services, in self-defense, during the intervention to neutralize them, injured citizen Leonard Dema, who is under the care of doctors.

Following the procedural actions, citizen AF, 28 years old, who was accompanying the wanted citizen, was also arrested in flagrante delicto.

A pistol firearm was also seized.

Investigations continue in cooperation with the AMP, and under the direction of the Prosecutor's Office.


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