Witnesses: He refused to drink THE 1999 CRIME IS UNCOVERED, THE YOUNG MAN WAS STABBED BECAUSE HE DID NOT RAISE THE GLASS The prosecution sends the case file of the crime in Thessaloniki to court. The victim Besim Tahfasi told the killer: I don’t drink anymore, that’s all I can do. The perpetrator: I hit him in self-defense More than 15 years later, the Tirana prosecution sheds light on the murder of a 19-year-old Albanian in the village of Sindos, in Thessaloniki, Greece. R. K. will have to answer in the dock for the murder of Besim Tahfasi. According to the prosecution, the investigation has proven that there was a conflict between the two men, who were migrants in Greece at the time, which was followed by the fatal blow to Tahfasi. The prosecution file says that R. K. acted intentionally and with premeditation against the victim. He has admitted the killing, but claims he committed it in self-defense. While the prosecution argues that the crime was not committed in self-defense, but was a premeditated murder, which occurred after a trivial quarrel, in which the perpetrator was urging the victim to drink alcohol beyond his means. In the prosecution’s request for trial, all the circumstances of the serious incident are clarified, as well as the evidence proving the charge against the defendant R. K. Among other things, the file states that: The victim Besim Tahfasi,...Continues on page 9

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