
Where's my baby? This is the question that has been torturing Juliana Hoxha's mother, Valentina, today 71.
The child disappeared on March 12, 1992 and nothing has been known since. She was 7 years old, she went out of the house to buy a balloon in the neighborhood and never came back.
Valentina Hoxha, Mother of Juliana: Give me money to buy a balloon, he said. The saleswoman at the time said she gave her do balloons, one for herself one for the brother. On the way back home, a criminal hand you could call it because a man can't do that job, kidnapped him and put him in the car. I went out to search here, I didn't find it, as a mother I made efforts, I made letters to the presidents of that time, I did everything and everyone tells me to go to the competent authorities. The competent authorities tell me we know this, and we're looking for it. What am I going to do as a mother? I am a mother. I have done everything I have done, the state must lay hands, I am not the first nor the last. Please, as a mother, as a citizen, if you are reluctant to say it and write it on a piece of paper and throw it at home, I am a mother who is mourning!
Lost in Tirana, in her neighborhood after The Çajupi High School, Juliana Hoxha is the first child kidnapped after 1990. Its name has been published for three decades in the folders of international agencies. Interpol said authorities believe Juliana may have been adopted illegally in Western European countries. No witnesses, no one tells the identity of the kidnappers. For her mother, the years remain in the days when the house was buzzing with the voices of the children, one of them the voice of Juliana.
Valentina Hoxha: He did his homework and had been in kindergarten, did his homework, six-and-a-half kids. I asked some of the kids and I said it wasn't there yet. The boy was a little boy and asked when his sister would come, when it was winter, they would play inside. She was a little girl, six and a half years old, but for adoption or organs, I wish it was adoption. She'll be a mother! If she has a family, she wishes her mother happy, but her mother wishes her to look back because I have been crying for 32 years!
The interpol files are displayed the names of 16 children, considered missing. They are Juliana Hoxha, aged seven, lost in 1992. Gezdar, 12, went missing in 1995. The son of a counterterrorism official in the secret service, Julian Cela, 10, was officially declared missing in 2013, Eva Dumani in 2014 was 9 years old, kidnapped with his brother by his father being sent in combat to Syria. Alexander Nikolli was 13 years old in 1998, Noel Musa, nine in 2019, Arisa Barci 13 years old, declared missing in 2019, three children Kledi, Robert and Amelia Peshpali were declared missing by Interpol in 2019, respectively. Artur Carja was nine years old when he was declared missing, Blerta Selaj went missing in 1999 and was three years old, Bleona Mataj was 6 years old and declared missing in 2010, Elson Lleshi lost 10 in 2009 and two children Jon and Janina Gashi 6 and 4 were placed on Interpol's list as missing in 2015.
Among them are children who have been kidnapped by one parent. Interpol chief Idajet Faskaj admits that in total, 243 people are known as missing in Albania, and the highest percentage of missing adults are known.
Idajet Faskaj: Except for the side that is known to all, except the capture of the fugitives, it is also on mission to find missing persons. Police have requested all the information received on missing persons based on family complaints and continued to convey this information that according to the decision has made public their announcement. For the day we speak, Interpol Tirana has 243 yellow cards and 141 cards that are published.
Anila Hoxha: How many of them are missing children?
Idajet Faskaj: Missing children has two categories, nationally and internationally. With yellow cards we have seven, five others are from 10 years old and down. Others are based on the criteria, and in compliance with the Hague convention. It is claimed to have been taken by one family member and there are four we have not declared internationally wanted. Interpol has its own procedures and is very sensitive. Under the law, certain principles must be respected, and should not be extradited on racial, religious grounds, even for those who are recognized to have been wrongfully taken, although Interpol may contribute, the procedure for his return to one of the parents must be respected several stages. In this case it should be the ministry of justice that cherishes the highest interest.
Anila Hoxha: How Interpol communicates, youngest is three, oldest 13...
Idajet Faskaj: There are certain criteria, characteristics, parent, particular signs, how it was lost, where it was. Recently Interpol has added And to help identify them, and Intrepol has a large base and so far 1900 DNA samples and we intend to add cases. The earliest year is 1992, which is Juliana Hoxha, still in the database. It is Gezdar Jewel, proclamations began in 2004, today and 20 years after all reports were exhausted.