Azgan Mërnica, the 23-year-old from Fieri appeared before the court yesterday under strict security measures.
Abandoned by everyone, even by the lawyers of the court, Mërnica did not speak about the incident, leaving everything in the testimony he gave to the prosecutor’s office in Fier, after he surrendered on May 15.
The measure of ‘prison arrest’ has been given to him, under which the investigations will also take place about everything that happened in the middle of the road as it is suspected that he shot the police officer in the back, who was getting into the car to be headed towards Fier to take the duty shift that day, a service that was cut in the middle with Mërnica’s life, the young man who appeared laughing as he was leaving for the police of Fier!
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The 23-year-old Azgan Mernica, who executed with a bullet in the head the “Eagles” officer, Novruz Cenalia, appeared in court yesterday to familiarize himself with the security measure. Dressed in bulletproof vest and accompanied by two police vans, Azgan Mërnica arrived around 13:45 at the premises of the Fier Court and left at 15:00.
The reason for the delay was the refusal of the lawyers to defend the killer of the policeman. The lawyer appointed mainly by the state, Xhevair Morina, did not appear at the session, so the secretariat called through the loudspeaker for other lawyers. In the end, the court managed to find, Arvenola Dolen, the lawyer appointed mainly for the implementation of the session of the security measure “arrest in prison”.
Azgan Mërnica is accused of “Murder of a state police officer” provided for in Article 79/b of the Criminal Code, and “carrying weapons without a permit” provided for in Article 278/1 of the Criminal Code. The sources said that the 23-year-old did not speak in the session with closed doors, he only briefly answered yes and no to the questions of judge Dajana Ndrea.
Even earlier, when he was questioned by the investigators, he admitted the serious crime without showing any remorse. Therefore, there was no family member outside the court. The murder happened at noon on May 13, 2024 when the member of the “Eagles”, dressed in uniform, was traveling from his village Baltëz towards Fier.
On the road, he accidentally met the 23-year-old from the village of Sulaj, who was moving fast with his passenger mother. The officer signaled them to stop and after they both got out of the car, he addressed them with the words “where are you going at this speed?”.
Claiming that he felt scared, Mërnica told investigators that he shot policeman Novruz Cenalia as soon as he turned his back to get into the car. The cold-blooded killer shot the policeman with a bullet in the head and for 48 hours hid in the villages of Fier, near his residential area. Surrounded by RENEA forces, unable to leave, in the late hours of May 15, his family handed him over to the police.
He was seen being filmed by a person with a mobile phone while they were told that it was a sector leader in the Fier Police who took him, not only him but also the order of his family members not to touch him with their hands when he was about to die. was in the cell!
