The FULL dynamics of the murder of Edoardo Sarchi in Tepelena are revealed

2025-10-02 14:00:41Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The FULL dynamics of the murder of Edoardo Sarchi in Tepelena are revealed
Author Kamber Sulçaj (left) and victim Edoardo Sarchi (right)

At the Braçi family's vacation home in the village of Salari, on the weekend of September 26, the head of the family, Eqeremi, his son Gazmend Braçi with 2 friends, and the Italian Edoardo Sarchi, friends and business partners of the Braçi from Tepelena, gathered.

After eating and drinking in each other's company, Gazmend Braçi and his two friends set off hunting.

To take them to the mountain, they hired a local shepherd, Armir Hitoveiz, who also slaughtered meat for them, and set off in his car.

As they were driving down a road created by passing cars, in a grassy field, a car pulled up in front of them. Its driver started yelling at them about using their high beams.

However, without appreciating it and leaving such a banal debate behind, Gazmendi and his friends left. On the way, a surprise. They ran out of fuel. At this moment, Braçi called his father, who was at the rest home, for help.

Eqerem Braçi set off with the Italian, in 2 cars, he in a white Land Rover Defender and Edoardo Sarchi in a Volkswagen.

Gazmendi and the group left the car below and started walking to the main street to meet their father and Italian friend, until they were all together.

They were outside their cars when shots were fired at them. The person they had argued with about the high beams had returned.

The 44-year-old Italian entrepreneur immediately tried to approach his car to close it so that the cabin lights would be turned off and the perpetrator, who had started shooting from somewhere, would not be able to clearly see him.

In this attempt, a bullet hit him in the back of the thigh in the main artery. Friends gave him first aid and called the police, requesting the help of a helicopter to take them to the hospital without delay, but the Italian did not survive. Despite all the efforts, he did not survive.

The bullets also hit the tires of the Land Rover and the Italian's Volkswagen.

For all that was happening, the Braçs had also called the other son of the house, Daniel, who also arrived at the scene. Everyone went to the police that day, except for Gazmend Braç's 2 friends. Out of fear, they had left. They later went to the police, with a lawyer. They described seeing a white car, but they could not say the name of the perpetrator because they did not know him.

In order to uncover it, investigators were aided by the statements of two local residents, brothers. They became completely random witnesses to everything that happened.

They were on a 4-wheeled motorcycle hunting when they heard gunshots, some in their direction, and the suspect asked them: "Are you with them?"

The brothers, frightened, answered "NO", left the motorcycle and hid. They testified that from below, the perpetrator was shooting at others who were up on the main road.

Through the descriptions obtained, the police placed the four who first clashed with the perpetrator, Gazmend Braçi, his 2 friends, and the shepherd, in front of 5 different photos. All of them, in separate rooms, identified the image of Kamber Sulçaj.

No shell casings were found at the scene. After the bullets were fired from the shotgun, the suspect is believed to have collected the casings. Investigators consider him a shell collector, as after the crime, a bag of shell casings was found in his home, similar to the one from the gun he fired on the day of the incident.

Security cameras at a residence in the area had captured his white pickup truck on the morning of September 26, the day of the incident, as he headed towards his farm, not far from Salaria, to deliver a plastic water tank for the cows he had at the farm.

In the evening, after the incident, another security camera spotted the suspect's car, shortly before the 48-year-old Vlora man from the village of Mesaplik abandoned it 5 km from his home, in a deep mountainous area.

The author is thought to have descended from Nivica to a stream, gone to Bolena, and then very easily could have gone to his native village, Mesaplik, or other villages along the river.

Currently, the 48-year-old remains on the run and wanted by the police./shqiptarja.com


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