“A nightmare that lasted 15 years”

PADUA – «fifteen years of hell. Fifteen years of terror because of that man. These are the first words that Haxhi Collaku’s ex said to prosecutor Marco Brusegan, yesterday afternoon, when the carabinieri took her to the via Rismondo barracks to begin to understand how she originated. hell broke loose after a few minutes in viicolo castelfidardo. The 55-year-old Albanian died a few hours after being shot by the police officer who had to intervene to save the life of his partner, already seriously injured by the man who ran over him with his van, crushing him against the Gazelle. . Doctors treating the 37-year-old soldier are particularly concerned about his open fractured knee and the fact that he has lost a lot of blood. Emergency surgery, however, should have saved his leg.. He worked for years in Galzignano, but always dreamed of working for Radiomobile. Dream come true a few months ago. The woman said she saw the ex appear under the house with the knife in his hand.. He had already denounced him in 2009, then two more times, always for threats and harassment. Maybe this time the 55-year-old would go all the way, maybe he wanted to kill her, because she never kept that she left him. But luckily, the woman saw him outside the door and didn’t open it. Immediately the call to 112, then the rest is history: the crash, the shots, the intervention of 118 and then the death in the hospital of the stalker, an Albanian of Kosovar ethnicity, an engineer by profession. At least at home.

A nightmare

In front of the prosecutor’s office and the carabinieri, the former couple, a mathematics teacher, who also collaborates with the university, began to recount those 15 years of hell that they lived through, first by his side, and then in hiding, because every time he found her, he tormented her. According to the first reconstruction, the carabiniere who fired the 4 bullets with his service pistol could not do otherwise. His colleague, a patrol partner, had been seriously injured and the Albanian was threatening him with a knife. Despite orders from the military to lower his weapon, the 55-year-old seemed beside himself, unstoppable. The carabiniero could do nothing more than shoot him to save the life of his colleague. The first assessments of the Arma leaders lean towards a totally accurate reaction of the soldier who fired according to the participation protocol. The commander of the Veneto Legion, General Giuseppe Spina, also arrived at the scene, who repeatedly showed gestures of support for the carabiniere, who remained for a long time in the vicolo Castelfidardo to help in the reconstruction of the terrible event. Also at the scene was the commander of the operational department of the Carabinieri provincial command, Gaetano La Rocca, in constant contact with the provincial commander, Michele Cucuglielli, on the outskirts of Padua. “The policeman seems to have acted impeccably according to the procedure,” the colonel specified, reconstructing those emotional moments.

The governor

Governor Luca Zaia also intervened in this regard: «The authorities will have to clarify the contours of a story whose gravity is, however, in full view of all. The Arma soldiers acted with great courage.endangering your own safety. I am personally, but also all the institutions of Veneto, together with the soldiers involved, to whom we send our best wishes for a speedy recovery.”

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