Gunshot wound in Saranda/ Helped the perpetrator, 43-year-old wanted man arrested

Around 50 police forces from Tirana, Vlora and Saranda have been conducting an operation for several hours to capture the much-wanted 43-year-old, Ramadan Zoto alias Ramadan Canaj.

The wanted person is the author of the attempted shooting of two people on Thursday, at whom he opened fire 4 times, leaving them injured on a main street of neighborhood no. 4 in Saranda. The operational forces, FNSH and "Shqiponja" conducted checks yesterday in the village of Gjashtë and today in the early hours in several apartments on "Butrinti" street in Saranda, but without success.

Ramadan Zoto, known as Dane, wounded Gëzim Hajdaraj, 33, and Ernest Lama, 25, both from Kamza, with a pistol after a heated argument. Hajdaraj was also armed but failed to fight back. The two injured were transported in serious condition by helicopter to Tirana.

Ramadan Zoto alias Ramadan Canaj, is considered a highly dangerous person in Albania and Greece. His name is first mentioned as a witness in an event in 1997, when a young man from Saranda clashed with a police officer in the city's market.

In April 2005, he shot and killed Albanian Pushkin Kuspa in Athens, and 3 years later exchanged fire with the Greek police. In Greece, he is also involved in armed robbery. In 2019, he was caught with a stolen vehicle, weapons and drugs in Athens, and after being released from prison, he moved to Saranda.

In Albania, he was prosecuted once for "disturbing public peace" and then arrested for "assault in the line of duty."

Along with Zoto, the police are also looking for 3 people for "supporting the perpetrator of the crime." One is his brother, Erjon Canaj, 36, and two friends, Artan Murtaj, 43, and Klaus Jaçaj, 31, all three with various criminal records.

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