Facts about the murder of Esat saw Toptan and the role of Avni Rrustem in it

By the time the Italians were preparing the grounds for Esat's return, the plan for the murder of Pasha was progressing. On 21 May, after a two-week stay in Tirana, the student from Libohova, Avni Rustemi, had returned to Italy. Avni was born in 1895. It was small and drying, its nose was sharp, its adjective apples, like carved eyes, and its endlessly collected lips. Though young, his life had been busy with events.

By the age of 12, he had been sent to Janina for studies and, after 3-4 years, to Istanbul. In 1912, he had attended a Geneva school where he had learned French. Two years later, in Vid's time, he fought against the epitrots in the south. In 1915 he had returned to Janina to study at an Israelite school and not forget French. In 1917 he had been appointed teachers in Tepelene. In early 1919, students had entered the Italian-Albanian College San Demetrio of Calabria and, since the beginning of 1920, studied in Rome on scholarships from the Durres government. It is hard to know which people met and what Avni did during his stay in Albania between May 5th and May 21, 1920, but when he crossed the Italian train to France, he had 6,800 lira and 300 francs in his pocket, totaling about $4,255 at today's value. Avni arrived in Paris on May 31st and was placed at the Des Tuilieres Hotel, which was recommended by some Italian students in Rome. Since the hotel was expensive, after a few days he rented a room on “Street. Faubourg Monmartre”. Avniou said that she had gone to Paris to attend a teaching course and had decided that she would travel through the capital for the first days. On June 2nd, she went to the Albanian delegation's headquarters at the Campbell Hotel, near the Arch of Triumfi, where she met with many members. Mitkhat Frasher recommended that he visit an Albanian exhibition opening the next day.

At the exhibition, Avni met a 47-year-old named Gjergj Goga, who told him he was Esat's secretary and lived in the continental hotel, the “Castigone” street. Goga had been coming from Corfu for weeks at the request of the test. His room was at the same time, where he collected stamp collections for Esatin and hosted newspaper articles that interested Pasha.

Goga said he was out of the hotel only with his superior's permission. A few days later, Avni went to see him at the hotel, and the two spoke about 30 minutes in Goga's office room. Avni begged him to recommend that someone help him conduct studies in Paris, and Goga gave the address to businessman Zef Asiku, who lived in Paris. Although the conversation did not speak of Esatin, Avni must now have developed a rather clear idea of the life of Albanian continental residents. In the French capital, Esat waited patiently for his political fate, according to the Turkish motto, which was also inscribed on the stamp he used: “Wisdom awaits his moment, the mad man stands in his way, the fool leaves the trop past”. Pasha had hopes. All Middle Albania was under its influence, explains Mustafa Kruja, former minister in the Durres government. The government of Tirana with Ahmet Delvina prime minister of Ahmet Zogu's, recalls him, had remained helpless against the cysts that flowed freely to the walls of the capital”.

Esati had told Pasic and other members of the Yugoslav delegation that his candidacy for the Albanian throne was becoming increasingly possible because he had now managed to get Italy's support. He had told them he would gladly return to Albania, even doing so immediately, if he did not fear an assassination on the part of Albanians.

A few months earlier, he had declared to a newspaper in Switzerland that he wanted to die as soldiers do, fighting at the head of his army. And yet, he said, "There have been some plots against my life, and maybe some killer will achieve the goal of”." One day, in the 176th apartment, he had shown Elise some newspapers that his men had overthrown the Tirana government. It should have been extensive news, but he had told him that he hoped that in the future he would gain power, even though he had many enemies in Albania. In Paris, however, Esat was not afraid, and he often left the hotel alone and did not give any thought to personal safety. Pasha was about to flee the Continental to settle in a furnished house on Villa Said Street, a prestigious address that would be next to the great Antole France writer. The house had just been emptied by Esat's friend Milenko Vesnic, who had returned to Belgrade to become prime minister of the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. The rental contract was bound on June 10th, and a piece of Esat's item was sent to Villa Said - an iron chest that served as a safe, a wooden shell, and several suitcases. The house was a four - room complex near the Boulogne Forest. The reason for the move was that Shadi, who had left Istanbul on Saturday, would soon come to Paris. Eliza was leaving for Vis, and her father had promised to see her again later. On Saturday evening, in the continental came from Essat's grandson, Jemil makes Vlora, for whom the witness had special love. They had not been seen for a year and a half.

On Sunday, June 13, morning, Esat along with Jamie and Elise visited the new home. Then he saw to it that the Paris newspaper, Le Temps, was sent to his guest, with whom he wanted Crewe to make public the request for compensation, since it seemed impossible for this work to be resolved by diplomatic means. In his extensive text Esat explained his ordeals, from Vid's time to the end of the European war, and mentioned his contribution to allies. Finally came to the core of the request: “over more than four years, I've received nothing of the considerable income my holdings brought me. I continue to pay the civilian and military expenses of my government in Thessaloniki and have taken over the pensions of disabled soldiers and families of those who fell into the battlefield in Albania and Thessaloniki. I truly appreciate that these costs total 10 million francs. In short, through my cooperation I get only material loss and moral contempt”.

The memo was closed with the words: “This double consequence is the result of my refusal of Italy's claims. The thought that I have done my duty to the end and faithfully can be a precious comfort to me if life did not have its demands and if I did not have to provide the material reward of those countrymen who, trusting in me and the spirit of equality of France, over three years abandoned their families and well - being to cooperate with me. Albanian blood watered the battlefields and, for the sake of justice, must not be forgotten!”

That day, he would have lunch with Jamie and Elise at the restaurant Léscargot d'Or. At one hour without a quarter, the three of them went down to the car that was parked right on the mainland entrance. Esat was wearing a grey jacket on which he wore the pink of Honorary Officer and French War Cross. Before they left, they were told to wait for him in the car because he was about to be late. When Jamiely, Eliza, and the driver were waiting, two loud shots were heard. From the mirror, Jamie saw a man with a revolver in his hand in front of the hotel gate. They both left the car and ran away without realizing what was happening.

A few minutes later it was learned that Esat Pasha had been killed, and the man who fired the gun had been Avni Rustemi. This man had been hiding behind one of the pillars of his Lord's access, awaiting his death. As Esat left the main gate, Avni had come from behind and shot him from some distance with a Smith & Wesson revolver carrying him. The bullet, the thickness of the finger, had penetrated under the neck, near the spine, and, when the body was turning and falling and the victim had lifted its wings for protection, Avni had shot him again, this time across the front left of the chest, almost at the height of the armpit. Esat had taken several steps, fallen to his knees, and fallen on the sidewalk. While the killer had let the revolver down and was trying to escape, the two doorkeepers were stuck in the hole and taxi drivers, who had happened nearby, had punched him in the face. There had to be a cop coming to let him go. Avni hadn't made any resistance, but his face was swollen and bleeding by shocks. Part of the book “Man, war and power”, Ilir Ikonomi. /Periscopi