incident.police – Albanian  Telegraphic  Agency. https://en.ata.gov.al News Agency Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:39:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Police: One person killed, three injured, former police officer arrested as suspected perpetrator https://en.ata.gov.al/2021/04/21/police-one-person-killed-three-injured-former-police-officer-arrested-as-suspected-perpetrator/ https://en.ata.gov.al/2021/04/21/police-one-person-killed-three-injured-former-police-officer-arrested-as-suspected-perpetrator/#respond Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:00:30 +0000 http://en.ata.gov.al/?p=142893 TIRANA, April 21 /ATA/  – State Police released preliminary official information on violent incident in the central city of Elbasan on Wednesday, resulting in the death of one individual and injury of three others, including a police officer, who acted in attempt to prevent murder.

Police said the perpetrator, a former police officer, has been arrested.

The State Police said in a press release that citizen Pjerin Xhuvani was killed, and three citizens were injured at violent incident at “5 Maji” neighbourhood in Elbasan around 2 pm on Wednesday. Meanwhile, police officer Xh.S., a member of the police special unit “Eagle”, was injured when she acted to prevent this crime.

Pjerin Xhuvani, 56, has served as director of the Psychiatric Hospital in Elbasan and director of the Regional Directorate of Compulsory Health Insurance Fund in the central district of Elbasan. In 2015, he was arrested under allegations of violating the medicine reimbursement scheme.

He has been involved with several political parties. Earlier, he has been involved with SMI in Elbasan, as well as the Party for Justice, Integration and Unity (PDIU).

Media reported that the perpetrator of murder is a former special police unit RENEA member, Arber Papaleka, the bodyguard of the Democratic Party’s Secretary General and DP political convoy in Elbasan, Gazment Bardhi.

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