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Albanian extradited from Belgium

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TIRANA, May 10 – Dritan Xhelita, 34, was extradited from Brussels, Belgium to serve his 18 years imprisonment in his homeland.
Xhelita was sentenced in 2003 to the prison term for a murder and illegal weapon possession,
In 1998 together with his brother Ilir they shot at police who had gone to check their apartment for weapons. One policeman was killed and another injured.

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