When the lights of political studios turn on and the squares fill with the noise of protests, the attention of a nation shifts to power. But on the night of October 14, as the capital was engulfed by the latest developments, in a forgotten corner of Shkoza, the silence of the night turned into a living hell.
Agim and Ismete Ziu, 68 and 65 years old, fell asleep in their home, unaware that they were entering the trap of a macabre crime. They were not simply killed by the flames that their ex-son-in-law deliberately set on fire in their apartment; they were killed by oblivion. Their lives were “swallowed” by the fire of jealousy and blind violence, but their loss was left in the shadows, drowned out by the loud political noise that dominated the screens. This tragedy is not an isolated case. It is part of an open wound that is bleeding throughout our society. From Tirana to Pristina, a terrifying wave of monstrous crimes is taking people’s lives. Women being executed on their doorsteps, men being killed for trivial reasons, and even innocent babies paying the price of their parents’ madness.
Kosovo and Albania are counting coffins produced by domestic violence, while public attention is often focused elsewhere. For the perpetrator of this inhuman act in Shkozë, justice cannot have any mitigating circumstances. Anything less than the maximum sentence deserved would be another murder for the two elderly people who were burned alive in their beds.
Today in the studio of the show With an Open Heart on News24 of moderator Evis Ahmeti, Enkelejda's mother-in-law, the mother of the author of the macabre event, spoke.
Author's mother: They always had this habit, that every now and then Enkelejda would go to her mother.
My son did not mistreat him. My son did not love me either. He did not approach me at all. The son should be punished for what he did, I did not go after my son in prison. I did not call Enkelejda, I did not offend her. May the victims be in heaven.
Astrit grew up mostly with my mother. I had neither a house nor a land. I lived door to door, because I was separated from my husband. I have nothing to do with Enkelejda, my child is to blame for my mistakes. Enkelejda, make me halal.
