
The repentant justice official, Artan Tafani, confessed how he carried out the assassination attempt on Kujtim Meta .
According to Artan Tafani's testimony, he shot him while Meta was standing in a bar.
Artan Tafani : Laertes' father had started the conversation. He even said we should kill him. He had beaten Laertes' father with his fists. He wanted to kill him with a knife because if he had been shot, it would be clear that Laertes had done it.
Dorian Shurdhi, an acquaintance of ours, Laertes' friend from Belgium, had come. Dorian was guarding the car and communicating with Laertes. Laertes had made the plan, I would hit him.
Lulzimi would come by car from Tirana, to a resort so we could do the work and leave for Tirana. But we couldn't do it. We didn't do it because Dorian Shurdhi didn't want to. Dorian knew they were going straight to his house. He cursed Laertes, Dorian. He said he would rot in prison for us. We tried again.
We had a Zastava gun that Bledar Berberi had given us to kill Albi Bashaliu. Kujtimi, the victim was sitting in a bar, next to the counter in front. I fired the gun at him. As soon as I hit him, he jumped off the chair. Then I shot him again. I fired the 8 bullets I had. He was running across the cement, and I shot him as soon as I ran out of bullets. I also shot him from behind. When I ran out of bullets, I ran away. I tried to aim at him. As I heard on the news, he had grabbed him in the stomach. I ran away from there, crossing the train tracks on foot. Lulzimi was waiting for me back there.
GJKKO : Were you masked?
Tafani : I had a Covid mask, a hood and a big sweatshirt. We got out on the main highway, stopped in Çermë, a patrolman signaled us. We didn't stop. On the way, I was behind, Lulzimi at the wheel. We passed Kavajë. I was talking to Laerti, he wanted to know the details. I was asking him where to throw the weapons. He told me to throw them on the road wherever you can, so I threw them in the same place where I had thrown Albi Bashali's.