On October 28, a 35-year-old Greek national named Kostantinos Kacifas opened fire in the village of Bularat, in southern Albania and home to a significant ethnic Greek minority in the area.

Hours after opening fire and targeting a police car, Kacifas was killed during a shootout with police.

The tragic event has sparked debates about the operation that led to Kacifas’s death, the underlying ethnic tensions between communities in Albania – and about the role that ethno-nationalism is playing in amplifying the voice of extremists in Greece.