"He warned us what he was going to do, we took it as a joke!"/ Suicide of a 15-year-old in Gjirokastra, his friend: They had harassed his sister! We spoke on the day of the incident, he told me...

2025-04-24 19:10:16 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

"He warned us what he was going to do, we took it as a joke!"/ Suicide

The friend of the 15-year-old who ended his life by hanging himself in Gjirokastra has spoken about her relationship with the teenager and shared some details about the incident.

On the "Open Heart" show with author Evis Ahmeti on News 24, she said that she is currently very outraged and spiritually affected by everything that has happened, and that her family has decided that she should distance herself from the event as much as possible.

She further provided more details about her relationship with the 15-year-old, emphasizing that they had broken up some time ago but had contacted him on April 1 before the incident occurred.

According to her, Vini, as she called him, had recently spent a lot of time with friends and expressed himself as happy.

 "I am very angry and emotionally affected by everything that has happened. I left a few days after my parents decided to leave the whole event. I misunderstood the whole event when I saw on the news that he is 17 years old after he was 15 and in July he would turn 16. We were very close to each other and talked about everything together. Vini and I were together for a long time, and after we broke up we lost contact. But he found me and wrote to me on April 1 that he was going to commit suicide and since then I have talked to him a lot to stop him.

"We lost contact only because we were teenagers and did whatever our minds told us and then we got angry and didn't talk to each other. We met when I was 13 and he was 14. I don't know how his friends treated him because I don't have much information, but I always saw that he was happy and recently he spent a lot of time with his friends," she said.

During the conversation, she emphasized that his family was aware that he was going to commit suicide, but his mother did not believe her, saying that he was doing it to attract attention.

She also said that Veipi had warned her that he would commit suicide on the 20th, but the whole society did not take it seriously because they thought it was just a joke on his part.

The minor's friend further emphasized that before the incident she had communicated with him, but his reaction had seemed cold.

The 15-year-old's friend then explained that Veipi had told her his version of the video that the mother had taken the day before. She said that an 11-12-year-old boy had been harassing his 10-year-old sister and that was why he had tried to strangle her.

"Sometimes he didn't tell me all his problems because he didn't want me to be upset or worried about him, but he always made it clear that he had problems with his mom and dad. As far as I know, she wasn't the only one who had told me. He simply told me specifically that on the 20th he would commit suicide. We had mutual friends and I found out by talking to them. We didn't contact anyone because everyone took it as a joke, but I tried to communicate with some family member, but since he lived in Gjirokastra, I didn't have much to do.

I just tried to clarify things. The day the incident happened, we had talked a little, but not like other days and at first he seemed very cold in his speech. When I asked him, he said that he was happy with everything in his life and I thought that I had managed to convince him with all my effort not to hurt himself. He was a very social person. We both communicated via phone and text messages. It is not true that he was bullied and that his family moved from Saranda.

"Vini had informed me that he had gone with his mother to the police the day before the incident, he told me on the phone and in messages. He had told me that an 11-12 year old boy had harassed his 10 year old sister and out of anger he tried to strangle her and they had made a video of that moment and had shown it to his mother," she concluded.

 

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