Vasil (Llaçi) Laçi, anti-fascist patriot, Hero of the People, was born in the village of Piqeras in Saranda. He was born in Piqeras of Saranda (his family’s last name is Llaçi, but Vasili in the press of the time and then he was mistakenly known by the last name Laçi). From a young age he was forced to work as a porter in Saranda and Durrës, 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 against the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel 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. He was hanged in Tirana, in 1941. (In the photo: Vasil Laçi)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1447.
Photo: © Xhoxhi L., personal archive
Graphic processing: AHCF
