The Court of Appeal in Tirana has released from detention the Italian citizen Salvatore Di Tella who accidentally caused the loss of life of his brother-in-law Nicola Loro.
The event happened on August 19 on the beach of Velipoja as the two young men collided with a Jet Ski while doing dangerous maneuvers in the water.
This caused 19-year-old Nicola Loro to die instantly.
Initially, the court of first instance in Shkodër gave the security measure " prison arrest " with a term of 60 days, but the appeal in Tirana overturned it, replacing it with the measure " property guarantee " and " obligation to appear ".
The property guarantee made available by 20-year-old Salvatore Di Tella who accidentally caused the death of his brother-in-law is in the amount of 10 million old lek.
During this 60-day period, two expert reports have arrived, that of the forensic pathologist and that of the Jet Ski technician in which the victim and the other person were located.
Di Tella is suspected of the criminal offense of "manslaughter ".
In the courtroom, the Italian Di Tella did not give any statement, sticking to the statements he made earlier to the police.
In the local police of Shkodra after the event, Di Tella narrated in a few words how the event happened.
"We collided before Nicola fell into the sea. A few minutes later, a big wave came and Nicola fell into the water and died there. It is a disaster what happened to us", Di Tella is said to have told the police.
Meanwhile, the defense lawyer Arbër Rraja asked for the security measure "compulsion to appear" with a property guarantee of 10 million old lek or, alternatively, he asked for the security measure "house arrest" in the apartment of the person who invited him and his fiancee to Albania for the wedding ceremony him and the court decided to accept the request of the lawyer by releasing the Italian citizen Salvatore Di Tella from the cell.
Lawyer Rraja, during the defense in the session of the security measure, stated that what happened is a family disaster.
The defense submitted 20 photographs of the victim and the alleged perpetrator to prove their close friendship and family relationship.
Meanwhile, representatives from the Italian Embassy in our country were also present in the courtroom during the session on the security measure.
The young people had come from Italy for vacation but it all ended in a family tragedy.