Ramush Haradinaj's court confrontation with Pec chairman once again fails

On Monday at the Foundation Court in Pec, sessions were envisioned in this case, but it has failed to hold due to the strike, in which, at the request for salary increases, administrative workers of the country's courts and prosecutors have entered.

The indictment against Muharjer, exercised in 2015, has come with claims that the Peja chairman, in an interview for the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard”, had said Haradinaj was making money by controlling oil business and luck games.

These statements by Muhhajer, Haradinaj, had described them as slander, scavenging, and filed charges, demanding compensation in many of the 250 thousand euros.

Judge Ganimetie Puka has said of “Justice Vow”, that the parties had announced it would not come to this session because of this strike.

She has said that the hearing in this case has pushed her indefinitely.

Haradinaj and Muhhajari had also missed the feasibility session, held on 5 June of this year.

In this session, Haradinaj was represented by lawyer Arian Koci, while Muhhaxhier's lawyer, Besnik Berisha, had also been absent.

Judge Ganimetie Puka had stated that indictee Muhharrier has announced to the court that he has not been able to come to the session for objective reasons.

During the preparation hearing, the plaintiff's representative, Ramush Haradinaj, lawyer Arian Koci, had stated that indictee Gazmen Muhajeri at his nomination in the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard”, on April 11, 2015, has slandered plaintiff Ramush Haradinaj, with his claim, has been damaged by Haradinaj's reputation.

However, in response to indictees Mujahier, given on January 21st, 2018, notes that the indictee disputes the whole indictment and its demand as baseless, and through response has proposed being heard in the quality of the witness, the journalist of the Austrian newspaper “Der Standard”, Adel Heit Wolfe.

Indictee representative Ramush Haradinaj, lawyer Koci, linked me to the indictment, had stated that indictee Gazmen Mujarır's claim has been misunderstood and misinterpreted in that article is an unsuccessful attempt to be acquitted.

Judge Puka had taken the decision with which the indictee's proposal for reading the article in the newspaper “De Standard” was approved, and also the article published on the portal “Dialog Plus”.

Meanwhile, she had rejected indictee Gazmend Muhhazier's proposal that journalist Addel Heit Wolfi's testimony be prosecuted in the quality of the witness, arguing that her testimony is irrelevant.

In contrast, according to the indictment exercised on November 3rd 2015, Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj as the plaintiff claims he has been offended and violated his personality and prestige by indictee Gazmend Muharjeri, head of the Pec municipality, in the interview given in the Austrian newspaper “De Standard”.

According to the indictment claims, indictee Mujajeri during an interview given in the Austrian daily “Der Standard<18x1>, with a deignive language for Haradinaj, has slandered by linking the same with gas pump businesses and lucky games, as well as some post-war clashes in Kosovo. /BpD/.