On May 17, 1942, the young Albanian Vasil Laci emptied five bullets on Victor Emmanuel III, who had come to Albania for a visit. The assassination was carried out when the imperial court was passing through Durres Street. The assassin was a common man who had worked as a loader in Saranda and Durres and later as a service worker in a Tirana hotel.
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