National Guard: We had no order to shoot on January 21st

These are the last moments of Faik Myrtaj, the protester that was killed in front of the Prime Minister’s office on January 21st, told by the eye witness Viktor Cervenaku, head of the Frakull commune, in Fier, and also January 21st protester.

Being in the police ranks for 20 years, he had understood since the beginning that those were real bullets.

Witness Vehbi Shkjau declared that he was in front of the Constitutional Court when he was injured on his leg, but not with real bullets, fortunately.

The process has continued behind closed doors with the testimony of the national guard soldier, Agron Malaj, a former member of the group that executed the plan for the January 21st protest.

Malaj was taken under investigation right after the protest, and he underlined that they weren’t ordered by anyone to shot, but the effectives had only respected the law for the usage of weapons. He reminded that he had fired some shots in the air too.

Mark Ndoi, Ammunition Chief at the National Guard, took the blame for not taking the signature of Commander Ndrea Prendi when he took the weapon, in 2009. Ndoi declared that it was caused due to his negligence. The lack of that signature is what saved Prendi from prison. The witness declared that he had placed in a safe deposit the weapons that had been submitted by the driver of Ndrea Prendi, Margerit Kume. Two months after January 21st, Kume handed over two weapons that belonged to him and two of Ndrea Prendi.

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