The testimony of McCumbin Mehmet, media spectacle and serious legal offense

But Mehmet's testimony, lawyer Tome Gashi, calls them a media show, because he thinks most of the things he said last night are rumors.

Gashi has indicated that since 2011, he has been seeking contact with the media, however, says that there has been no such live and television show so far.

It has been a media show more, because most of what that witness told him, Shkumbin Mehmeti, have been well known. I believe there's no media behind him that he hasn't contacted since 2011 when he was arrested, and he made similar spectacles but not on television, and not so directly” Gashi said in a proposal for Periscope.

According to Gashi, if the witness knew something concrete and facts he would have to co-operate with prosecutors, as such a form of testimony does not help anyone.

“If he had known something more specifically the best course had been for him to co-operate with prosecutors, but with concrete facts. Otherwise I've seen the show, and I've seen his statements, most of them gossip. So I don't think that helps, except that he found the way for me to be cooperative with the tracking organs, and that statement says he conditions them. I don't believe it's normal for anyone to declare that he conditions prosecutors for providing the information he gave him yesterday or who thinks he knows”, has told Gashi.

The whole event last night called Gashi a spectacle that doesn't take anywhere.

He wants favors dealing with his 30-year sentence being convicted of murder. I don't think it's serious, and it's kind of a show that doesn't go anywhere. He didn't give anything he didn't know until yesterday.<x1...

And according to Betim Musliu from Kosovo Institute for Justice IKD, it's a serious violation if Shkumbin Mehmeti made such statements in the quality of a protected witness.

I don't know if the character interviewed by Klan Kosova has legal status as a protected witness, but I doubt he has that status because of the media's approach to it. First of all, there's no right for a protected witness to have the freedom to approach the media, because to become a protected witness, there are a number of restrictions that are strictly respected. So, given the ease of approaching this convict, I believe his status is a condemned person and can eventually be a witness, but I don't believe he has the status of a protected witness. On the contrary, if he is a protected witness, I consider that we have a series of legal violations, both from the institutions of justice and the correct service, which have allowed access to the protected witness, such as from the medium, who, given the legal restrictions on this category of witnesses, has conducted an interview with him 148x1> has declared Musliu for Periscope.

Musliu has stated that according to the Law on Witness Protection, it is forbidden for such witnesses to be exposed to public.

Otherwise, neither the Law on Witness Protection, nor the professional standards of journalism allow this category of witnesses to be exposed because of danger to him and his family, as well as the risk of administration of justice. The discovery of information of this nature by protected witnesses poses potential risks to disrupt justice management - the investigation, prosecution, and trial of all the evental protagonists” - he added.

According to him last night, only one side of the coin was seen, since such evidence would have to be verified and all sides should be involved in producing a truth.

It's a matter of subjects of credibility that can forgive this condemned person. In principle, any charge should take the attention of the investigative organs and the pursuit to track evidence and evidence that makes a truth clear, and in this regard I consider that his testimony should also be investigated. But the public outcry, of course, requires another standard. Unverified, uninvestigated information, and only with one medal, produce no effect and, to the most difficult, appear reliable. In this case, I consider that the media should carry out its mission to investigate the truth, providing access and space to evidence, evidence, and all of the Heeders mentioned to say their version. This I think should be done before the publication of any news because a version, especially of a convict in this case, is hard to believe by any viewer” is expressed by Musliu.

According to Musliu, interviewing protected witnesses is prohibited.

No permission is required, but if this convict's status has been a protected witness, his interview is strictly prohibited. Permission in this case was not to be granted by the Correcting Service, but directly by the judge, who would have to approve the prosecutor's request, if such a request were to be made” he explained to Periscope.

Musliu has expressed scepticism in the prosecution's work on such cases, saying the international prosecution as well as the local one has failed to whitewash the crimes committed in Kosovo before and after the war.

“Procurory, both international and local, has failed in most sensitive cases to whiteen the crimes committed in Kosovo during and after the war. International justice has been compromised overall with public ties of involvement in corruption and we have seen that their practical mission has not been fighting crime. While, expectations at the local prosecution are small because at the helm of prosecutors we have chief prosecutor who are practically elected politics, starting with the chief state prosecutor, who is seen in the vicinity of “Proto 3” that he is Hashim Thaci's assistant, whose party, in 2011, has been negotiating to run for PDK head of Pristina,<13>, has added IKD executive director.

According to him, the victims' families deserve and rightly seek justice. It is an anxiety and unacceptable that criminals are not known, pursued and tried to receive a merit sentence. Family members should not stop seeking justice for victims, even though there are continuing failures to implement the obligations the police and prosecution” have concluded for Periscope.

Even the prime minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, has said he has felt surprised after hearing testimony from Shkumbin Mehmeti.

A person from prison gave me interviews is strange. All the statements had to be the matter of prosecutors and judges not to be shown media. I haven't seen the interview, but I heard comments and reactions, and I am surprised”, has declared Haradinaj at a press conference held after today's meeting of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo.

Chief Prosecutor Alexander Lumezi, meanwhile, has said that with all that was declared last night, the EULEX Prosecutorship is being taken away,

In addition to Haradinaj today, the Zemaj families -- Tolaj and Haklaj -- who through a letter have sought to clear cases of justice./Periscopi/