In the show "Në Shënjestër" by journalist Klodiana Lala, the evidence uncovered from the investigative file on the murders between the Gjini and Kaza tribes clearly shows the origin of the chain of murders that dates back to 1994, with the execution of the crime boss in Lezha, Ndue Kaza, and which continued with the assassination of June 1, 2025, where his brother, Pjetër Kaza, was killed.
"Investigations show that Pjetër Kaza was allegedly killed for blood feud reasons. The Kaza and Gjini tribes have been at enmity since 1994.
"During her statement to the police, the victim's wife said that he was not protected, despite the problems of hostility they had as a family," the investigative file states.
According to data provided by the show "Në Shënjestër", everything seems to begin with the execution in the center of Mirdita on January 7, 1994, of the crime boss in Lezha, Ndue Kaza, a murder that shocked not only the police uniform, but also the Kaza family itself, which never forgave the blood of their relatives.
Referring to the documentation of the time, Ndue Kaza was in Rrëshen on the day of his murder.
It is said that Ndue Kaza's execution came after he intervened to avoid a conflict between two rival groups.
It would be precisely this murder that would also serve as a prelude to opening a wound that would never close between the two families.
The revenge, which seemed to have been postponed, was not lacking. But it came even bloodier, just 3 years later, on July 3, 1997.
The one who would take revenge on behalf of the Kaza family for the loss of their relative, police commissioner Ndue Kaza, would be Martin Kaza, one of the brothers of the now deceased officer who shot and killed the two brothers Dod and Agustin Gjini, in the center of Laç.
Dod Gjini was also the direct executor of Lezha's crime boss, Ndue Kaza.
Immediately after committing the crime, Martin Kaza decided to leave Albania and not surrender to justice.
But as he left Albania, justice initially sentenced him in absentia for the murder of the two Gjini brothers.
In 2001, four years after the double crime he committed, the Kurbin Court found him guilty, sentencing him to 22 long years in prison in absentia.
After the murder, Martin Kaza left Albania and took refuge in Great Britain, where he remained in hiding for almost 20 years until 2017 when he was discovered in a London neighborhood.
Kaza was extradited to Albania to serve his sentence for the murder of the Gjini brothers in the disastrous year of 1997. Martin Kaza did his best not to be extradited from Great Britain.
Meanwhile, Albanian authorities had also sent his mother's DNA samples to their British counterparts.
But while he was extradited to Albania, he began a legal battle in the Court of Appeals to escape punishment, given that he had been convicted in absentia.
"Martin Kaza was arrested in 2017 in the capital of Great Britain, London, while hiding there. After being extradited to Albania in 2018, he took his case to the Court of Appeal, which overturned the first decision and sent the case back for retrial to the Kurbin Court," it says in the investigative file.
The Court of Appeal reasoned that defendant Martin Kaza, who was tried in absentia and sentenced to 22 years in prison for premeditated murder, had his right to a fair trial violated.
But his lawyer claimed that the Kurbin District Court did not guarantee the defendant any rights.
"Martin Kaza, in the trial conducted against him. From the evidence administered in the trial, there is no act to prove that the defendant or any of his family members were notified, at a time when the defendant and his family had a defined address and his notification was easily possible", Martin Kaza's lawyer claims.
The lawyer claimed that Kaza was not guaranteed the right to defense and the reason for this was the manner in which the injured Besnik Legisi was questioned in the premises of the Burrel Penitentiary Institution.
(BalkanWeb)
