Colleagues: Jokes with the prosecutor at Rinas SERIOUS CRIME PROSECUTORS RECOUNT THE DETAILS OF THE FAREWELL TO XHEVAT HANA Shkëlqim Hajdari: When we saw him off at the airport we told him we would meet again for New Year’s. President Bamir Topi consoles the family: A huge loss for the state itself By KLODIANA LALA We saw him off laughing, even though we were aware of his serious condition. We told him that, if he did not come to Albania to celebrate New Year’s, we would go to see him in Italy...” While saying goodbye to his friends, the prosecutor for Serious Crimes flew to Italy, not knowing it would be the last time he would meet everyone and the last time he would leave this mother earth. He left hoping he would win the battle against the severe illness. He left to close his eyes in the hospital in Bergamo. Shkëlqim Hajdari, head of the Appeals Prosecutor’s Office, is one of the people who stayed by his side in the last days of his life. Together with Prof. Petrit Baren and his cousin, Flori Karaj, he saw prosecutor Hana off at Rinas airport. It is precisely these moments that are deeply etched in Prosecutor Hajdari’s memory, and he decides to share them with the readers of “GSH”. “With Xhevat Hana,... Continues on page 5