The thrilling story of the Albanian killed in France and the question her family is asking

An overexplored soap opera from a small province incident. But that's not because this story is so vivid that when you know it, it touches you like you've molested a deep wound.

In September 2014, Silvana Beqiraj was found murdered in a channel in Lounel, Montpelier, France. According to French authorities, the body belonged to 33-year-old Beqiray from the Intermenas Village of the Fieri Circle. According to French media, the young woman was suspected to have been killed and then her lifeless body was thrown into the canal. After publishing information that she may have been a victim of the trafficking and exploitation of prostitution, verifications began to be verified by Albanian police. Forensic expertise in France has not produced a final result in death causes. This expertise failed.

Today, after three years, it's still not dawned how Sophia Beqiray was killed... Who killed him and why? And her family, for three years nobody's willing to call her, announce, explain what happened to the investigation...

With her story, I got to know her all by chance, while with British journalist Julie Bindel, we traveled south in search of information about women's trafficking networks in Albania. The colleague from Fieri L.R. described me as a delicate story, but the voice had to be given without fail could not be buried with Silvana's body. Not as long as no justice has been done... We walked long in the narrow streets of the village, reflecting the scope of a social, economic, and moral ruin in the area. We have to get down, we're close to the Beqiraj family home, but where the car can't go. There are all features of a very modest house and family at survival levels, but where the hospitality and joy of the guest's arrival are greater than the calamity that has frozen the normality of their lives. They immediately pull everything out and wait for the guests. And the last food.

At home we find only her mother, a young woman who now cares for the two minor children Sophia left behind, along with her son's two children. Grandma and mother... Julien is excited that her mother's questions about the story in France will hurt an old wound and start talking about what happened to her, asking her about the best memories she's ever had in Sophia: How was that little one? What were her childhood dreams? I don't know if this question was Julie's first interest in getting to know Silvana, or even a professional strategy to create trust and closeness with those interviewed... Anyway, for her mother, it was a question that warmed her soul... “There was a lot of dreams, but that we couldn't fill... ”- it came out.

Our little family children are taken to the next room during our conversation. We said Sophia was sick. They don't know anything”- says his mother, who, even without speaking, not listening to you, doesn't stop crying while she's holding pictures of the girl that she's been gone for three years. As we approach murder and questions about crime, she withdraws, telling us to wait for her husband and son to arrive because “ta know better...” They initially refused to admit that their daughter was a victim of trafficking, but in the course of the discussion, they expressed their conviction and doubts about those who might be involved in the girl's murder.

Silvana's father, who works from morning to evening as a driver with seemingly severe shade, only seems to indicate that Sophia's close friend, who gave them the bad news, B. Well, he's a locked person in history. He describes her as being aware of the causes of her murder, even of those who may have killed her. B.E. was the person who waited for Mehmet in France when he went to identify Silvana's body. He quotes the girl as saying, in those days: Sophia was not behaving well lately! Realizing that Silvana was probably no longer meeting B.E.'s demands regarding the work she involved. During a few days in France, in 2014, the father says the Albanian consulate enabled only one translator and nothing else, treating him with arrogance and contempt.

With the same contempt facing today at the doors of the institutions of justice where Sophia's case, apparently of the past, and besides the soul of her family, is no longer disturbing and disturbing...

Sophia's body arrived in Albania after seven months of finding day, and for this, family members say they needed between 6 and 7 thousand euros, borrowed from family members. For seven months they had to wait for the authorities to pay back the girl's shame, claiming that examinations and investigations were being conducted, which in fact never had an outcome... in three years no news. Father relates that no sign of physical violence was found in Sophia's body and that her daughter must have been strangled. But the autopsy failed, and today in their home, just a few French-language processes, where police make a statement of body and transport to their homeland, there is no other information from the French side. Family say they don't know where to go and ask for information, much less to contact the police of distant France, thus being isolated to the tormenting act of asking: “Who killed Silva? If not, do you have any idea who might have a finger?

Julie's direct question, father and brother are about to give an answer, after a deep breath, and just as they prepare to take it out with a loud voice, they both stop and turn themselves in: We're helpless! Do they know and are afraid to talk? Or do they know traces that lead to the cause of crime? These questions accompany me as I try to read my vision.

I got killed by those who sent him there. B.I know who, but she doesn't! ”- says the father.

A few yards from their home were the village cemetery where Sophia's body is present. We pass through the courtyard, with Mehmet's insistence on seeing the cattle grow and climb a hillside, where the heads of the village are resting. After three years, they still couldn't set a heaven, but only a plaque with the name and date of the body burying, not the date of death.

“We've done the drill, because it doesn't work. We still haven't paid off the debt we took to bring”- says his mother while holding a bottle of water in her hand, which she leaves on the flowers placed instead of a tombstone. The father has another concern that he is overly distressed: Don't abuse my daughter's name! He was killed by a journalist who had gone to the village the first few days. You don't remember the name of the TV. “She went out and said my daughter was a prostitute in Italy and Greece. When my daughter, in Greece, went to my men for work that we had no bread”- says Mehmeti.

Silvana's past has been difficult, amid efforts at a better life and helping the family. After being separated from her husband, Jot, with whom she had two children, she established an intimate relationship with a 42-year-old girl from the town of Ballshi, who lived in the neighbourhood “11 January” in Fier. But shortly after creating this new bond, 42-year-old Nuri C. Killed in the midst of the village of Havana, in the presence of his beloved. The circumstances of the incident have been clarified in a court ruling, where the alleged author of the murder has been sentenced by the High Court's College with 12 years' removal of freedom from which he must suffer 8 after benefiting a third of his sentence from a reduced trial.

The ruling is said to have been judged Sokol M., a resident of the town of Fier, known to Silvana Beciray from the village of Havana and, as a result of this friendship, has asked her for a 3,500-euro loan. But it's been a while, and the judge hasn't returned that amount, even though Silvana has repeatedly asked. Meanwhile, in May 2011, it has been recognised and established intimate ties with victim Nuri C. The decision says she has asked her boyfriend to help get the money from Sokol M. About 6 p.m. on July 9, 2011, Nuri C. and his girlfriend, Sophia Beqiray, have gone to the village, as the latter would go to her home. When she saw her father on the street, she went down to her apartment. At this point, Sokoli has seen Nuri C. and left the club with his friend St. M. has begun to debate with him by mutually insulting him. During this debate the victim hasn't come out of his car at all, while the judge has opened the trunk of his friend's car from which he has taken a hunting gun, shooting first in the air. Then he put his gun inside the car, drilling with the victim and telling him to get out of the car to clear up. The victim did not go out with all the insistence on the trial, and right now he shot him and then shot him again in the air. The suspected author has left the scene and rejected the weapon. Meanwhile, 42-year-old Nuri C. He's been escorted to the hospital where he died later as a result of injuries caused by the hunting weapon.

As long as there are no investigative results yet to set points on it, we cannot say with certainty the relationship of Sophia's past to the causes of her death. Nor to feed without evidence, the idea that Sophia was killed because of her three - year work in France.

But one thing is screaming: Greater than the suffering of family members for losing their daughter is the torture of their inability to learn who killed them? Like his mother would say: My daughter's gone, she's not coming back, but at least she knows who killed me?

Time goes by and this September turns into three years from Silvana's death, but her case sleeps in the files of a justice system where fans and prosecutors, now named and surnamed, are also known as concrete and construction businessmen in Fier. Economic inefficiency prevents family members from communicating and caring in the French state, as they feel powerless in the face of a system in which the strongest but not the weaker ones find solutions.

Sophia has left behind two young children - boy and girl - each benefiting a 90 thousand-dollar assistance each, the assistance that Grandma says fought for a year in a row while trying to obtain legal custody for them. She continues to cry when L.R., who often communicates with Silvana's younger son, says: He is intelligent, but he must be treated carefully. Do you know, that he is a child who, without your knowledge, goes alone to his mother's grave?

You need to look forward and think about Sophia's children. You have to understand that there will be a moment when the flow of life will take things to its place to bring peace to your life...” - I turn to my brother. He sees it in the eye, makes no sound and lowers his head...

His silence is the answer to the dilemma that involves me, if there may be peace without justice...?