He tried to blow up the Lushnja stadium! Aldo Bare's "Soldier" is challenging the law to stay in Great Britain

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He tried to blow up the Lushnja stadium! Aldo Bare's "Soldier" is
Maxim Cela

Sentenced to prison by the Serious Crimes Court in Tirana, Maksim Çela has already embarked on another trial, but not in Albania. After planning to blow up the “Roza Haxhiu” stadium in Lushnje, he left for the United Kingdom with a fake passport.

The 59-year-old went to Britain as an asylum seeker in a bid to reunite with his family after serving 23 years in prison for the murder of a police officer on April 14, 2000.

Maksim Çela is not an unknown name to Albanian justice, as part of one of the Lushnja gangs, he is involved in many criminal acts. It was precisely this "branch" that he is strongly attached to in order to stay in Britain.

He claims that if he returns to Albania, he will be killed by criminal gangs because of blood feuds and revenge. It seems surprising that a criminal wanted by justice is using the law to stay in Britain, writes The Sun.

Born in the Albanian city of Lushnja, Maksim Çela claims to have once been a businessman and ran a car sales business in Germany as well as working in a dental clinic and a hospital.

He had planned to detonate a bomb at the Lushnja stadium in 2000. After the plot was uncovered in 2001, the court sentenced him to five years in prison.

Meanwhile, in 2006 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for “participation in criminal organizations,” the murder of a police officer, and the unauthorized production and possession of weapons and ammunition. He was released in December 2022, having served more than 23 years of his 25-year sentence.

In December 2022 he left Albania for Spain, travelled to Italy and then flew to the UK on what he admitted was a fake passport, arriving at Heathrow in January 2023.

When initially interviewed by the Home Office, Maksim Çela claimed that “three terrible gang groups” were “coming after” him and his family because he had been a member of the “Lushnjë gang.”

A letter to the court written on his behalf said rival gang members would "execute him in revenge" if he returned. He has since changed his story, Home Office lawyers say, claiming he was never really a gang member.


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