Prime Minister Albin Kurti received today in his office the senior management staff of the Kosovo Police.

Among them was Besart Ahmeti, head of the Special Operations Unit, who was the leader of the operation in the north.

Kurti in an Instagram post said that he reunited Ahmeti after 16 years as he shared a photo when Ahmeti had arrested Kurti at that time during a Vetëvendosje protest.

“In my office at the Prime Minister, today I received the Minister of Interior and senior leader of the Kosovo Police. Among them was Besart Ahmeti, whom I reunited closely after 16 years. Captain Ahmeti has professionally led the police of the special unit in Brnjak and has conducted excellent field negotiations there. We did not shake hands because of the pandemic.

Lezha Police has located the location of 21-year-old Aldio Rama, who is suspected as the perpetrator of the execution of the crime officer in Lezha Saimir Hoxha, 44 years old.

Ora News learns that the whole area of ​​Kune-Vain lagoon on Lezha Island is surrounded.

It is learned that his location was made after he fired twice in the direction of the helicopter that was checking its location.

Details from the dynamics of the murder of the crime officer: He was hit by 10 bullets

The top police leaders, Ardi Veliu and Tonin Vocaj, are also in the operation.

Two other people who are thought to have been in the vehicle with the suspected perpetrator of the murder have also been detained.

Today marks 14 years since the murder of the Kosovo Special Unit police officer, Triumf Riza.

The policeman of the elite unit, Triumf Riza, was killed on August 30, 2007, writes the online newspaper “Reporteri.net”.

Enver Sekiraqa was sentenced to 37 years in prison for his murder on charges of inciting the murder of former police officer Riza and coercion.

Meanwhile, the mastermind of the murder, Arben Berisha, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of the accusation that he was the one who killed Triumf Riza in 2007 in the Santea neighborhood in Prishtina./EO

The Supreme Court today confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment for the former police officer, Shefki Spahiu, who last year was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Jetmir Aliaj in a casino in Suhareka.

The College of the Supreme Court, in the criminal case of the accused Sh.S. from Suharek for the criminal offense of “aggravated murder” and the criminal offense of “manipulation of evidence”, deciding on the appeal of the defense counsel of the accused filed against the judgment of the Basic Court in Prizren, and the judgment of the Court of Appeals of Kosovo, at the session of the panel held on 20 May 2021, by a majority of votes, partially approved the appeal of the defense counsel of the accused Sh.S., only as regards the legal qualification of the criminal offense of “aggravated murder”, for which the accused has been found guilty, so that in the actions of the accused this court finds that the elements of the criminal offense of aggravated murder are met

In the rest the judgment remains unchanged.

Defendant Sh.S., his defense counsel, lawyer EK, representative of the injured party lawyer AR, injured party HA, and AA State Prosecutor did not participate in the public session of the panel, held on May 20. at this hearing, but with a submission, proposed that the appeal of the defense counsel of the accused be rejected as unfounded, while the judgments be upheld.

The Panel of the Supreme Court, through Judgment PA.II.nr.3 / 2021, assessed the aggravating circumstances, which have taken into account the lower courts, but specifically emphasized the following circumstances; that the criminal offense was committed with a high degree of intent, the accused was a member of the Kosovo Police and that the offense was committed with an official weapon, a circumstance which is assessed as particularly aggravating by the fact that the position of the accused has caused consequences not only to the victim, but also to the trust in security institutions and citizens in general, then the circumstances under which the offense was committed without any motive, the victim was a vulnerable person and did not have the opportunity to defend himself, his behavior after the offense “, attempting to conceal the crime and destroy the evidence, the fact that the victim was young, married and a parent of minor children”, it is said in the notification of the Supreme Court

Therefore, “in the above-mentioned circumstances and in the absence of mitigating circumstances”, the Panel of the Supreme Court has assessed that “it will not be able to justify the imposition of a more lenient sentence than the one imposed by the court of first instance”. / Voice

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May 05, 2021 – 08:28

The defense attorney for the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of killing African-American George Floyd has called for a new trial, saying the court abused its information on several counts and that the guilty verdict should be overturned. due to the misconduct of the jury, it is stated in a court document submitted on Tuesday.

Former white police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty last month of killing African-American George Floyd on May 25 last year. Evidence at trial showed Chauvin held the knee to Floyd’s neck for 9 and a half minutes while the African-American was saying he could not breathe and later was not moving.

Defense attorney Eric Nelson cited many reasons in his request for a new trial. He said Judge Peter Cahill abused the court’s information and violated Officer Chauvin’s right to a fair trial and a fair trial when he denied Mr. Nelson’s request to move the trial to another district because of prior publicity.

He also said Judge Cahill abused when he denied an earlier request for a new trial because of publicity during the proceedings, which attorney Nelson said threatened the justice of the trial.

Attorney Nelson also raised the issue of refusal by Judge Cahill to seize the jury for the trial or to warn them to avoid all media, and for his refusal to allow a man who was with George Floyd at the time of his arrest. his to testify in court.

Nelson asked the judge to reverse the decision on the grounds that the jury had behaved inappropriately, felt pressured and / or failed to follow the jury’s instructions, although it did not include details about this allegation. Requesting the withdrawal of a decision raises doubts about its validity.

The document did not mention recent reports that one of the jury members took part in an Aug. 28 march in Washington to honor civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

That jury member, Brandon Mitchell, defended his actions, saying the event was to commemorate the 1963 Washington March and was not a protest against the death at the hands of African-American police George Floyd. Floyd’s brother and sister, Philonise and Bridgett Floyd and relatives of others who had been shot by police, delivered speeches at last summer’s march, writes VOA.

Nelson did not immediately respond to a message for further details on his allegations of misconduct by jury members.

The Basic Court in Gjilan has approved the request of the Basic Prosecution of Gjilan, imposing the measure of detention of 30 days on the defendant R. Sh.

According to the Court, there is a grounded suspicion that the defendant from November 2020 until 20.04.2021, met several times with the injured minor, who is a person with mental disabilities, in which case the defendant is suspected of having sexually assaulted her. These sufficient circumstances for which the court considers that show the potential risk that if the same is released he can repeat the criminal offense or commit another criminal offense with even more serious consequences.

With these actions, the defendant is suspected of having committed the criminal offense of “sexual assault”, an offense sanctioned by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kosovo (CCRK).

The pre-trial judge in the Serious Crimes Department assessed that the legal reasons for imposing detention on the defendant remain, as other alternative measures at this stage of the procedure would be insufficient.

The absence of prosecutor Javorka Prlinqevi shkak led to the postponement of the retrial session in the case of the accused for attempted aggravated murder, Artim Gashi.

The presiding judge, Judge Naser Foniqi, announced that prosecutor Prlincevic was regularly summoned, but did not appear at Friday’s hearing, reports “Oath of Justice”.

The accused Gashi was not present at the hearing either, for whom Judge Foniqi said that the court did not send an order for conduct.

However, when he contacted the Transport Unit, specifically the official Bujar Zeqiri, the latter informed him that they were able to bring the accused to court within 30 minutes.

However, in the absence of the prosecutor, the judge did not issue a warrant for conduct.

Present in the courtroom were the defense counsel of the accused, lawyer Mentor Neziri, the court translator, Blerta Bekteshi, the father of the injured party BC, as well as the experts of the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Dr. Bujar Obërtinca, Dr. Valbona Blakaj-Ramadani and clinical psychology Arife Veseli.

In the absence of legal conditions for holding the hearing, it was postponed to May 11, 2021, at 13:10.

Otherwise, the Basic Court in Prishtina, in September 2018, had sentenced former police officer Artim Gashi to 15 years in prison for the criminal offense of “attempted aggravated murder”.

However, the prosecution remained dissatisfied with the amount of the sentence, which had appealed against this judgment, requesting the latter to impose a higher sentence of imprisonment on the accused.

Regarding this case, the Court of Appeals, on December 17, 2020, annulled the judgment of the Basic Court in Prishtina and returned the case for retrial, suggesting that a super expertise be appointed, where at least one of the experts is a university professor. of the relevant field. According to the Appeal, after receiving the expertise, it is evaluated and decided according to law.

According to the indictment completed on March 23, 2021, Artim Gashi is being accused that on February 4, 2017, around 09:30, in “Xhavit Ahmeti” street, in Prishtina, after a preliminary preparation, he had accompanied the injured party BC from home, who had gone to the faculty exam, stopped him and tried to force him into the car.

However, according to the indictment, after the injured party had refused, in order to deprive her of life, with an official weapon, type “Glock”, he had hit her with a bullet in the head, exactly in the left eye, a blow from which the victim had torn the tissues of his left eye, while the bullet had penetrated the brain, tearing his brain membrane, in which case he had caused serious bodily injuries to the victim, life-threatening with permanent health consequences. It states that the defendant had left the scene.

With this, the prosecution charges the accused Gashi with the criminal offense of “attempted aggravated murder” under Article 173 paragraph 1, points 1.3 and 1.8. regarding Article 28 of the CCRK.

Prosecutors in the United States have filed charges of second-degree murder against a police officer who killed a teenager of color in Minnesota.

Actress Kim Potter has already been arrested and is being held in custody. The day before and her boss resigned.

Potter stated earlier that she accidentally killed young Daunte Wright after confusing the pistol with another paralyzing weapon she had in her belt. While the lawyer of the victim’s family claims that the murder was intentional and that the police exceeded its competencies, reports A2.

This gruesome event provoked a backlash from the population in Minnesota, many of whom have been protesting for three days, in some cases violently, in the city streets.

The latest cases of physical and psychological violence against citizens of the country that have been committed by some members of the Kosovo Police (KP), these cases have recently been reported by citizens and through video recordings by the media in the country, are being investigated by the Kosovo Police Inspectorate (KPI).

For the case that happened last week on street B in Prishtina, where members of the Kosovo Police used tear gas against a citizen after she took her dog for a walk without a security mask and asked the police on which law the sentence against PIK has started collecting information.

The collection of information about this case was confirmed for Telegraf by the PIK spokesman, Arbër Beka.

According to him, other actions are expected to be taken in accordance with the legal mission of the PIK.

“Regarding the incident that was reported in the media and that occurred on street B in Pristina, the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, respectively its investigators ex officio have begun collecting information regarding this case. “Other actions are expected to be taken in accordance with the legal mission of the PIK”, he said.

Whereas, for the other case which happened on March 08 of this year, where members of the Kosovo Police entered a restaurant in Pristina using tear gas and physical violence against some people who were inside the restaurant as there were still people who worked even after the allowed hours due to the anti-COVID measures taken by the Government of Kosovo, Beka told the Telegraph that investigators have taken investigative actions in consultation and cooperation with the Basic Prosecution in Pristina.

As he said in this case, the PIK has filed criminal charges against a police officer regarding suspicions of the criminal offense of “ill-treatment in the exercise of official duty.”

Regarding the incident that was reported in the media and that occurred in the neighborhood Peyton in Prishtina (08.03.2021), the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, respectively its investigators have undertaken investigative actions in consultation and cooperation with the Basic Prosecution in Prishtina. Regarding this case, PIK has filed a criminal report against a police officer regarding the suspicions of the criminal offense of ill-treatment during the exercise of official duty “, said among others the spokesman, Arbër Beka.

Today around 16:20 a police officer in Peja was found without signs of life.

The news for “Zeri” was confirmed by the spokesperson of the Police for the Peja Region, Driton Rugova.

Rugova said that the police unit immediately went to the scene.

“Today, on 01/03/2021 at 16:20, the Police in Peja received the information that a police officer was found without signs of life. Immediately the police unit went to the location and other relevant units were informed to perform other procedures. “necessary, where after performing these procedures you will be notified for other details”, he said for “Zëri”.