Gramshi Police Clarifies Incident within Military Base

The Gramshi police have given details about the incident that happened on Sunday afternoon near the Weapons Processing Plant, where there was a physical fight between Albanian soldiers Ardi Bici and Ardjan Xhaka with two Russian citizens and one Ukrainian, after the latter tried to sneak into object. 

Police says that it has been alerted that an unidentified citizen with a camera in his hand was found near the perimeter of the plant, who tried to photograph the premises of the military area. 

At the moment when the 2 soldiers guarding the facility spotted him and approached him to stop and arrest him, the foreign citizen responded with neuroparalyzing spray, but the 2 soldiers guarding the plant made it possible to neutralize him. 

Upon receiving the notification, the Police Services immediately went to the scene and escorted the Russian citizen, Mikhail Zori, 24 years old, to the premises of the Gramsh Police Station, for further action. 

Also, the Police services received information from preliminary investigative actions that this citizen was accompanied by two other citizens and immediately set up checkpoints and checked the area. 

The Police Services made it possible to find and block the "Chevrolet" type vehicle in the vicinity of this area, in which the Russian citizen Svetlana Timofoeva, 33 years old and Ukrainian citizen F. A., 25 years old, were travelling, who have been escorted for further actions. 

"The investigative group, under the direction of the Prosecutor's Office of the Elbasan Judicial District, is at the scene and continues the work to clarify the circumstances of the event and its legal documentation. For this event, the Criminal Police Department and the Anti-Terror Directorate of the State Police have been engaged and the actions are being coordinated with the General Staff of the Armed Forces. The two soldiers injured after first medical aid were transported to Tirana for more specialized medical aid and are under the care of doctors out of danger to their lives", says the police among others.