Vasil (Llaçi) Laçi, anti-fascist patriot, Hero of the People, was hanged in Tirana. He was born in Piqeras of Saranda (his family’s last name is Llaçi, but Vasili in the press of the time and then was mistakenly known by the last name Laçi). From a young age he was forced to work as a porter in Saranda and Durrës, and later as a servant in a hotel in Tirana. With strong patriotic feelings and driven by hatred for the Italian fascist invaders, he shot with a revolver the king of Italy, Victor Emanuel III, on Durrës street, on May 17, 1941 in Tirana. He was arrested, tortured and sentenced to death (by hanging) by the fascist military court. (In the photo: Vasil (Llaçi) Laçi)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1447.
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