Vukotic declared innocent of killing four Albanians

After reading the indictment on the part of EULEX prosecutor Paul Flynn, the accused has been declared innocent.

His defence lawyer, Miro Delevich, has asked the presiding court with Darius Sielicki to transfer him to prison in northern Mitrovica.

Currently, accused Vukotic is in the Duz maximum security prison.

His request came as a result of the need for more frequent consultations with his protector, where such a thing cannot be accomplished because of the distance.

The Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo has filed charges against Vukotik for war crimes against the civilian population on May 16th of this year.

According to the indictment, Zoran Vukotovic, during the time of armed conflict in Kosovo, on May 5, 1999, on Vushtrri, on the “Emin Duraku” street, in co-ordination with the accused Goroljub Paunovic, in the quality of Serbian police reserve, dressed in Serbian police uniforms and armed with knives, pistols and automatic rifles, have beaten and looted individual civilians of Albanian nationalism through the courtyards and neighborhood homes.

Furthermore, the indictment describes that he has deliberately beaten and then killed four Albanian civilians identified as: Enver Rustoll, Hamdi Fazliu, Avdula Fazliu, and Fahredin Fazliu, in the home of the Fazliu family.

The prosecution claims that at first the same was stopped by Fahredin Fazliu and then sent to Hamdi Fazliu's backyard.

At the entrance of the house were Sanije Zushi-Fazliu and her sister-in-law Ficryye Feyzullahu. The accused have later begun beating Fahredin Fazliu along with the two high-ranking women asking for money.

In the meantime, always in accordance with the indictment, one of the accused had left home and had recently entered the house again, along with Fahredin Avdula é Fazliu, whom he had violently brought.

Following these actions, Fahredin Fazliu's father, Hamdiu, along with neighbor Enver Rustoll, had heard what was happening in order to escape, have entered the house to offer money to the accused.

But the accused continued to beat them, where they were also killed in front of the upper women.

Vukotovic along with the other person, after this move, left the crime scene.

The second point of the indictment charges Vukocuti that he has acted inhuman ways against civilians of Albanian nationalism, deliberately violating the bodily integrity, health, physical and mental well-being of 17 injured and witnesses, torturing and causing serious physical and psychic injuries, consequences that the injured still bear.

Vukotic is also charged that he deliberately and violently robbed money in various sums, gold and other valuables from Albanian national civilians, namely, eight injured and witness simultaneously.

The Actakuz was established by a local prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo in co-operation with an E mission prosecutor ULEX, who has proposed to the competent court to convict the defendant of criminal acts and to condemn him by law.

KA LLXO.com had reported on the measure of detention imposed on Vukotic.

Zoran Vukotic was extradited from Montenegro to Kosovo in November 2016