Probe launched into Albania shooting

An Athens prosecutor is to launch an investigation into the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of an ethnic Greek man by police in southern Albania on Sunday after it emerged that the 35-year-old had Greek citizenship. 

The case file was sent to Athens by a prosecutor in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, after the sister of Konstantinos Katsifas presented his identity card to judicial authorities to prove that he is Greek so that a probe can be launched here. 

There had been no official response by late Tuesday night to a request by Katsifas's family for a Greek coroner to examine their son's body. The Greek Embassy in Tirana submitted the family's request to Albania's General Prosecutor's Office. 

A key concern is that the body of the 35-year-old has been at the hospital in Gjirokaster (Argyrokastro) for three days, as there is no morgue, and the burial...