Italian Archives: Passor of Hasan Pristina assassination was Ahmet Zogu

Italian Central State Archive

Interior Ministry

General Public Security Directorate

Political Police Department

Pristina Hasan

Rome, August 26, 1933

As confirmation of what we have communicated to the sender of Albanian political refugee Hasan Bey Pristina's assassination, it turns out that Zara's political refugees were informed that the killers coming from Tirana to kill refugees were accompanied by the personal administration of King Zog, Muharem Bajraktari, and by the renowned Zorophire Fiqri Dino, who covered the killers themselves at the moment of their landing in Italy. Albanian political refugees of all trends complain that the Italian press has not dealt with the Pristina person, who was always a playful Italian, and that, when taken away, it has done it by receiving news from French newspapers that have, in this case, published communiques with obvious Yugoslav inspiration. For this point they quote the script brought by “Pete Parisie” in Paris, from the newspaper “The fascist Regime” The Kremlin, which defines Pristina as Yugoslav.

Rome, August 21, 1933

The recent murder of an Albanian refugee in Thessaloniki gave me the opportunity to explain that, even in Italy, assassins in charge of carrying out similar revenges against resident refugees in the Kingdom have arrived or must soon come.

Among these assassins are Albanian regular army officers, as well as a diplomatic representative, a Catin Saraci, consul o zv.consul career that has for a time covered this post in Vienna. He is well-known in Albanian environments and goes to Rome often.

Rome, August 21, 1933

By referring to the news given long ago (i.e. which Chatin Saraci, the Albanian consul general in Vienna, is the man who has the greatest trust in King Zog, we learn last Saturday Cetin Saraci was passing through to Rome on his way to Tirana. The same day Hasan Bey Pristina's murder occurred, King Zog has urgently called on Cetin Saraci who effectively left Vienna.

As for Hasan Bey Pristina's murder, we also learn that the ambassador of this assassination was King Zog himself and that direct lawmakers have taken care of choosing the killer among their Yugoslav Albanian partisans to give all the allegations of another base.

Hasan Bey Pristina had long transferred his newspaper's directorate from Kostanca to Thessaloniki and exactly closer to the Albanian border to making its propaganda more efficient.

The king considered Hasan Bey's position near the border a real danger.

Chatin Saraci's immediate call could be about the new situation created following Hasan's death among Albanian refugees.

Vienna, August 19, 1933

Pristina's murder has done a lot of damage locally, because as it has been reported, his killer has been looking for him here. Pristina was not well seen here, and he should thank Dr. Funder, editor-in-chief of “Reichspost” and the interference of the Ministry Fey if he could stay here 14 days.

Rome, August 19, 1933

Albania's local league, which has had contacts with Albanian Chatin Saraci during this individual's stay in Rome, had prepared before the Albanian Telegraph Agency distributed its own -- a statement to Italian press, announcing that Hasan Bey Pristina's murder was Yugoslav. It is easy to understand that this communique had been consulted by Saraci himself.

From further information, I can assure you that Saraci, a question directed by Kodelj about her country, answered in the presence of very rhetorical witnesses but spoke of the trip from Fiume (Reeque) to Trieste and that from Venice to Rome, implying that he came from Yugoslavia.

It has also been proven that Pristina's killer has been in contact with Saraci in Nice and then in Austria, and he has shown in confidence to the Albanian regime that, in addition to intimate pleasure, he wanted to give Yugoslavia a test of the link by getting rid of an Albanian element that gave more than all the trouble in international contexts, especially the League of Nations dictatorship of Belgrade by presenting marks against Serb oppression of Kosovo Albanian official territories.

Pristina figured for the Albanian regime as a tool of Italy and Hungary, which, always according to Tirana, held as reserve for the possible foreign affairs minister of his country.

Cetin Saraci urgently had to return to Tirana and seemed anxious to reach that country to receive the promised reward for his work.

For those informed by Albanian political refugees, the name of Shefqet Bej Vllac, former head of the Council of Ministers, is done with perseverance as one of the appointed to be eliminated by Tirana's killers, because he is considered a close friend of the fascist government.

Interior Ministry

General Public Security Directorate

3rd section n. 443/63680

Honoured Political Police Department

(about footnote n. 500/20664 this month's 15th prayer that interests the informant to provide confirmations of Hasan Bey Pristina's position in Rome by communicating with whom he had contacts)

Copies of the telegram July 23, 1933. 7436 coming to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Subject: Hasan Bey Pristina

V.E. 20th telegram of this month n. 443/6242

We beg you to let us know if this ministry turns out Hasan Bey Pristina has been effectively in Rome in recent times and, in such a case, with whom he has been in contact.

Farall

July 24, 1933

Interior Ministry

General Public Security Directorate

3rd section n. 443/6242

Honoured Political Police Department

About footnote. 500/20664 of the 15th harvest 1933

Copies of the telegram by hand No. 5905 on the 16th? 1933 coming to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Albania office as:

Subject: Hasan Bey Pristina

In the coming days, a prominent Albanian refugee, Hasan Bey Pristina, coming from Vienna, via Trieste, will go to Zara to meet with Dervis Bey Mitrovica; it will remain three or four days to follow Greece by plane via Zara-Brindisi.

In view of his mission, it would be appropriate for Hasan Bey Pristina, equipped with regular passports issued by Istanbul's Prefecture, not to submit any measure of surveillance.

Signed Alois

Rome, July 20, 1933

Director of the A.G.R. Department.

Rome, June 27, 1933

It clearly turns out that Albania's local Legata has been informed of the refugee's presence in Rome of Hasan Bey Pristina. It also turns out that the senior diplomatic office has informed the Tirana Government of this fact, linking contemporary presence in our Pristina capital with a known Italian believer, resident in the Austrian capital.

Albania's highly quoted legatus is at this moment making investigations to reveal the reasons for his country's political refugee coming to Rome that she believes is in good relations with Italian political circles.

Political Police Department

Note for the respected Department of General and Reserve Works

1,508

Rome, August 30, 1932

It is transmitted to this respected department that has come from confidential sources.

(In prayer not to be checked in France)

Director

Chief of the Political Police Department

Paris, August 1932

Citing Pristina or Pristina Hasan Bey, born on January 27, 1879 in Vicitr (Albania), former chairman of the Council of Ministers of Albania, who was expelled from French territory on 22nd, 1931 because he lacked a residence visa, has been authorised to stay in France on behalf of the foreign affairs minister. He lives at Boulevard de Monteparnasse No. 135. He lives alone. His wife died in 1931.

Vienna, June 15, 1931

Mrs. Hasan Pristina after 14 days left for Paris to join the man. But now we are informed that he died unexpectedly.

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