January 17, 1982, is the day when brothers Jusuf and Bardhosh Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka were killed in an assassination attempt.

Although 43 years have passed, that day remains forever fresh with its mourning not only for the families, but also for a number of people who have been spiritually and organizationally connected to the activists.

The assassination of two brothers Gërvalla and Kadri Zeka took place in Untergrupenbach, Germany. German state authorities have announced that unknown assassins have killed three Yugoslavs and that this was the new culmination of the secret war in which Yugoslav security agents and opponents of the government are fighting among themselves.

After the Croats were exiled, the Belgrade government declared a bloody war on the Albanians coming from Kosovo. The assassination occurred while the driver of the car (BMW 316, license plate: HN CY 353) was driving the car out of the garage, reversing towards the crossroads.

In snowy weather, somewhere in the first 40 meters the car stopped after from a construction site on the right side, a person from a distance of three meters shot. In addition, another person fired and approached her to prove that they had achieved the goal.

Neighbors, frightened by the gunfire, see two males fleeing. The car was left on, as Bardhosh had his foot on the gas pedal. As a result, the car continued to walk until it collided with a garage.

During this time, the driver died, while after the collision the engine was turned off. At the scene, the police found the driver of the car, Bardhosh Gërvalla, 31 years old, dead, hit by six bullets, Kadri Zeka killed by two bullet wounds to the body and Jusuf Gërvalla, 36 years old, also seriously injured by two blows. with bullets.

Der Spiegel (January 25, 1982) writes about the motive of the crime that the quick identification of the victims has also clarified their motive and political direction: "Yugoslavs in exile who belonged to the Albanian nationality from the province of Kosovo in the south of the Balkan state, and who all three activists against the government of Belgrade". Even for the perpetrators of the murder, there were notes.

At the scene, Jusuf Gërvalla, who later dies, whispered to the police "It was the UDB".

All three men had been shot twelve times by 7,65 caliber pistols, ten shots had gone through the heart, lungs and neck. A policeman at the scene says: "It looked like an execution."

It was the method used by the secret service, as the sniper and police instructor from Stuttgart, Siegfried Hubner, put it: four bullets must be fired, "three to pin down the victim if he is still standing, that is to knock him down and incapacitate him for countering, and then the necessary and deadly fourth reshoot".

Time and the assassination was the culmination of the feuds of the Yugoslav secret service with the opponents of the regime in the outside world in these years. /KosovaPress/