The remains of Albania’s King Zog I were flown back to his country on Thursday after being exhumed in a cemetery near Paris, reports RFI.
Zog, who reigned from 1928 to 1939, died in France in 1961.
Zog’s remains were to be put on show in Tirana on arrival Thursday before being transferred on Saturday to a mausoleum for the royal family that has just been built as part of festivities to mark the centenary of independence from the Ottoman empire.
About 100 people attended the exhumation, which had been organised by the Albanian embassy, and took place with full military honours.
Speaking at the cemetery in Thiais, just outside Paris, Albania’s European Integration Minister Majlinda Bregu described Zog as “one of the most illustrious figures” of the country.
Read more of this report from RFI.