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Albania Envoy to Yugoslavia is Assassinated; Youth Fires Two Shots Into Back of Tsena Bey in Prague Restaurant; Surrenders at Once; Alleged Betrayal of Country Prompts Deed, Slayer Tells Police
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 18. —(AP)—After gulping three glasses of cognac, Agivadh Bebi, a young Albanian, suddenly approached Tsena Bey, Albanian minister to Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, in a cafe on the Wenzelplatz last night and fired two shots into his back. The minister died on the way to the hospital. His deed accomplished, Bebi calmly handed the revolver to a waiter, surrendered to a policeman, and was taken away. To the police commissary he said he had killed Tsena Bey because he believed the minister intended to betray Albania to Yugoslavia. Repeated questioning by the police failed to shake his assertion as to the motive for his crime. He said he was born at El Bassan, Albania, in 1904. His occupation he gave as student. News of the assassination spread rapidly and caused a sensation. Helped Depose Premier Tsena Bey, already minister to Yugoslavia, had been only recently named minister to Czechoslovakia as well. A brother of Ahmed Zogu, the Albanian president, he helped him depose former Premier Fan Noli, and was at one time his commander-in-chief and minister of interior and foreign affairs. He was only 50 years old. Not sharing Ahmed Zogu's friendly feelings toward Italy, it is said, he resigned his cabinet portfolios and military command and was sent to Belgrade as minister at his own request. Tsena Bey took the Yugoslav side in the recent incident rising over the arrest of the dragoman of the Yugoslav legation at Tirana, the
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Treaties of Tirana
On November 22, 1927, the Pakti i Dytë i Tiranës was signed between Albania and Italy, with a duration validity of twenty years. The internal threat of a famine triggering uprisings and the external threat of Yugoslavia rushed the Albanians to sign the treaty. It tasked Italy to protect the Albanian territory from possible attacks and in return Albania made available to Italy all of its military arsenal.
Wikipedia →Albanian Kingdom (1928–1939)
In 1928, President Zogu secured the parliament's consent to its own dissolution, as he had already gained authoritarian control of the country. A new constituent assembly amended the constitution making Albania a kingdom and transforming Zogu into Zog I, 'King of the Albanians'. Civil liberties remained more or less nonexistent, and political opponents were frequently imprisoned and killed.
Wikipedia →Alexander I of Yugoslavia
Alexander I Karađorđević was King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934. The assassination took place on October 9, 1934 in Marseille, France. It was perpetrated by IMRO and Ustaše, allegedly organized by the Kingdom of Italy.
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