Convicted for the murder of the commissar of Shkodra, Genc Tafili is extradited from Germany

Tafili was arrested in Germany on January 4 this year at Frankfurt airport, where he was going to travel to Istanbul.

It is learned that Tafili was extradited to Albania to serve the remaining sentence of 6 years, where he will be handed over to the directorate of prisons.

He was sentenced by the Supreme Court in 2002 to 25 years in prison and after serving part of his sentence, the Kruja District Court, in 2017, decided to release him on parole.

In May 2021, the Tirana Court of Appeals decided to return this citizen to prison, to serve the remaining sentence of 6 years, for murder.

On 02.08.2000, in Shkodra, Genc Tafilaj, in cooperation with his father, killed with a firearm the Director of the Shkodra Police Directorate at that time, Arben Zylyftari.

Who is Genc Tafili

Sensational murders, attempted murders, grievous bodily harm, escape from prison and many other serious offenses, started on the hot day of August 2, 2000.

Bahri Tafiili was declared wanted on suspicion of being the perpetrator of Gëzim Geci’s murder, following a property dispute.

The Chief of Crimes in the Shkodra Police, Prelë Pjetrushi, and several other officers were conducting a routine check at noon on August 2, 2000, when they noticed that Bahri Tafili ran away and locked himself in the apartment.

Attempts to arrest him immediately began, but Tafili and his son Genci fired at the police force.

In such conditions, Pjetrushi requests reinforcements and the Director of the Shkodra Police, Arben Zylyftari, is put in charge of the Rapid Intervention Forces.

After a few minutes of exchange of fire and siege of the apartment, it is suspected that Bahri Tafili shot at Zylyftari, who received a bullet in the chest and died a few hours later at the Shkodra Hospital.

Police officers execute the suspect Bahri Tafili, while arresting his son Genc, ​​who is sentenced to 25 years in prison, but after 17 years in a cell, the Kruja Court released him, “removing” the remaining eight years of imprisonment.

With such a story it was thought that this issue was closed, but other lives would be taken as a sign of “revenge” and Prelë Pjetrushi became the target.

While Genci was in the cell, Bahri Tafili’s other son, Admir, began to implement the only plan: “Execution of Prele Pjetrushi”, as he suspected that he was the cause of his father’s murder.

Pjetrush was assassinated while on duty at the Malësia e Madhe police station and was seriously injured.

Admir Tafili was suspected as the perpetrator of the event and a few months later he was arrested by the police, while the senior police officer Prele Pjetrushi left for America for security reasons, but left behind his family in Shkodra.

Seemingly a closed case, but the prison staff of St. Kolli become the protagonist of a “madness”, as on October 2, 2010 they give him a 5-day leave to meet family members.

Admir Tafili manages to escape in the eyes of the guards, who guarded him in front of the house.

Although many searches were made by the police, it was not possible to capture Admir Tafili, who managed to challenge the Shkodra police and on March 18, 2011, just 6 months after the spectacular escape, Admir Tafili was shot dead after an ambush near their apartment, the two brothers of the former crime boss Prele Pjetrushi, citizens Nik and Gjovalin Pjetrushi.

They had returned from emigration for a few days off, but were executed in the middle of the road. When the police shouted in the bushes of the hills of Shkodra to arrest him, Admir Tafili arrives in Tirana and sits quietly in a bar near the RENEA Special Unit and after consuming a beer he informs the Tirana police that he was ready to surrender.

The court sentenced Admir Tafili to life imprisonment, but in 2013 he managed to escape from Drenova Prison, but was arrested a few hours later along with several other convicts near the villages of Librazhd.

Admir Tafili is currently serving a life sentence with several other serious charges, as it is suspected that he ran an organization from prison, which committed paid murder.

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