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One of the victims linked to the drug lord's wife! Double murder, the 1999 crime file is reopened! The mystery of the murders, who shot the two young Albanians?
2025-04-12 12:36:42 / AKTUALITET
In 1999, two Albanian drug traffickers were executed in Essen-Schonnebeck. The cold-blooded crime remains unsolved and the case is now being reopened.
Violated honor, drug money, several bullets fired at close range at the two victims, with whom the Albanian gang boss may have previously made drug deals, two deaths and then silence in the mafia environment, these are the elements of the double murder mystery.
The criminals who allegedly ambushed two Albanians, Altan B. and Alban M., on June 7th to execute them have not yet been convicted. They were shot with two pistols in the head and body in Garnbleiche. That is why two retired investigators, Detlef Büttner and Michael Detscher, are reopening the case.
They are trying to solve the cold-blooded double murder and put the organizers behind bars.
It's Monday evening around 11:15 p.m. when an anonymous person calls the Essen police.
There were gunshots behind the Schonnebeck asylum seeker center in Garnbleiche. Several patrols rushed to the scene of the crime. At a roundabout they came across a Ford Escort with Essen license plates. To the right and left of the car lay the blood-covered bodies of two Albanians, aged 20 and 24, as well as a large number of 7.65-millimeter cartridges commonly used in the criminal environment of that time.
One of the victims was still holding the car key, the driver's seat of the Ford had been folded forward, and the victims' jackets were lying in the back seat.
The two Albanians may have been about to leave when they were shot dead. They may also have gone out to buy drugs, which they intended to sell at the main train station a short time later, as they often did.
On the night of the crime, investigators arrested five Albanians. However, during interrogation, it turned out that there was no reasonable suspicion against them. They were unable or unwilling to provide the police with any further information, perhaps in self-defense.
With every statement, they risk being framed for drug distribution or facing reprisals from criminal groups as traitors, a police officer told the newspaper at the time.
Murder investigators know that the two victims of the bloody crime had been running their drug deals in Essen for some time. Police consider the two Kosovo Albanians to be brutal, who act ruthlessly towards competitors as the market tightens. It is said that these guys had nothing to lose after fleeing their war-torn homeland.
According to police, the fact that the asylum seeker home in Garnbleiche became a favorite center for traffickers in the 1990s is largely due to its favorable location. It's quiet at night, you can hear every patrol car.
The affair with the drug lord's wife
Investigators believe that the murder of the two young men was revenge by one of the then leaders of the Albanian drug gang.
While in prison, according to investigators, he learned from an associate that one of the two victims had begun an affair with his wife and had also embezzled large sums of money from drug deals.
Altan B. and Alban M. were probably, according to investigators, led into a trap through a phone call, not knowing what awaited them. Two armed men shot at them from close range, a third was sitting in a red car in which the perpetrators fled after the murder.
The suspects were detained, but the evidence was not sufficient to charge them. The two murder weapons, which could have been checked for traces, are missing.
And although the witnesses were included in the protection program, investigators did not get the crucial testimony they needed.
It was and is difficult for the police to penetrate the structures of organized crime with their own rules. The suspected gang members at that time were known in Albania and were even from the same village. In a foreign country they sought protection in their close-knit community. Among them, the law of the criminal world was applied: anyone who speaks will be punished.
Detlef Büttner and Michael Detscher think this wall of silence may have cracked after decades.
The retired police officers hope that they will find out the people involved, those who knew about the double crime, or even witnesses in the asylum seeker building, where mainly Kosovo refugees were, because they no longer have anything to fear. The group from that time no longer plays a role in the drug crime scene in Essen.
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