Salih Zyba sues Kosovo Police

The indictment states that in 2015, Zyba had been arrested by two police officials who claimed to have committed excessive physical violence against him.

For violence claiming to have been exercised against him during his arrest, he had complained to the Kosovo Police, from which, according to the indictment, he sought to take disciplinary action against the two policemen.

But after Kosovo police had rejected his complaint and that the court's two police officers had not been taken measures, the former Kosovo Parliament's delegation on September 14, 2016, had exercised indictments at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, respectively, at the Department for Administrative Affairs, reports the “Bettim for Justice”.

This indictment has been reviewed at Thursday's session, attended only by plaintiff Zyba, while no representative from Kosovo Police has attended as an unknown party.

According to Judge Arjeta Sadiku, the representative of the unknown party was well invited, but according to her, the absence had not reasoned.

The plaintiff Zyba said he considers the fact that the accused party has not come to the session to confront him and present the evidence available to him.

He under these circumstances has asked the tribunal to first under official duty to provide records in the case when he was arrested in the Pristina municipality object, as well as the statement of the person who had been with him, who was a security worker.

Zyba said he wants the court to take on evidence in which he is seen being treated at the moment of arrest.

While, after this proposal, Judge Sadiku has taken the decision he has made to the Kosovo Police, which according to the request of the Zyba plaintiff, the court has handed in as evidence of recording taken by security cameras in Pristina's municipality.

At the next session, which will be held on January 17, 2020, at 10: 00 p.m., police officers Veton Islam and Sami Halimi will be invited, as well as the statement of security worker who had worked at the Pristina municipality at the time.

According to the decision taken by the commission for complaints under the Kosovo Police, Kosovo Police Inspectorate, in office on August 31st 2015, had begun investigations after the news in the media concerning the arrest of municipal official Salih Zyba and the subject of investigation had been two police officials Sami Hamiti and Veton Islami, who had worked at Pristina's “Qentra<1.

Under that decision, Zyba had complained that these officials had committed excessive physical violence during his arrest.

In this regard, according to this decision, the Directorate of Professional Standards in Pristina reportedly had conducted investigations of Hamiti and Islam police officials, and they had been declared innocent of disciplinary violations.

The ruling said it had not been argued that Lieutenant Sami Hlim, along with his colleague, Sergeant Veton Ismal, had used excessive physical force in the case of Zeba's arrest.

However, it was Zyba, who has claimed this ruling by the indictment, under which he has demanded that this decision be reviewed once again by the court, after he, in making that decision, had not been observed by specific provisions with administrative procedure.

Among other things, Zyba in the indictment has said that physical violence had been exerted against him, and that police had not been professional in the case of completing this actual situation, in his opinion, a unilateral and unjust decision in his case. /Betimy for Justice