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After 20 years, the legal issue of a tragic hunting trip in Albania is reopened in Veneto. First, the Court of Vicenza and then the Court of Appeal of Venice had sentenced a craftsman from Malo to pay 1 million euros to the family of a 15-year-old boy killed with a shotgun. Despite the corrected criminal sentence across the Adriatic, the civil case will now be discussed in Cassation, where it will be necessary to decide which sentence will be applied; the Italian one, or the Albanian one?
The accident happened on October 17, 2003, during the trip of several hunters to a village in Lushnje, organized by a tourist agency. A blind bullet killed Bledar Abdurrahman, while he was working with his father on the family land, local media say.
The companion of a group of Italian hunters took all the blame, so much so that the hunters returned home without being questioned at all. But the case was complicated for Evelino Casaran, one of the members of the group, the case would be complicated, when he found out that the companion had withdrawn his testimony and then, and the Italian was tried by the Supreme Court and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
"A dramatic story firstly because a little boy died, but also because of the consequences for my client," says lawyer Alessandro Zocca.
Civil strife has begun in Veneto. Between 2018 and 2020, the judges of Vicenza and Venice sentenced Casara and Generali, jointly and separately, to pay the damages suffered by the victim's family: 300,000 euros were set for each parent, 130,266 for each of the two brothers and the grandmother. And 7 thousand euros were also paid for the funeral expenses.
The craftsman, together with the insurance company, have taken all the documentation to Cassation, complaining among other things about the fact that the event took place in Albania, so therefore the Italian law should not be applied, as far as the liquidation of the family is concerned for the consequences.