A month's detention for two drivers who killed the elderly by racing in Podujevo

The Constitutional Court in Pristina é branch in Podujevo, the General Department of Criminal Affairs, has decided on the Pristina Constitutional Prosecutor's request for the appointment of the detention measure against defendants L. ZH and L.M because the same are suspected that each single person has committed a public trafficking risk against Article 378 par.9 related to par.6 and par.1 of the Republic of Kosovo Penal Code.

The court has made a decision and defendants L. ZH and L.M. have been assigned detention measure since 09.03.2019 until the date 09.04.2019.

The court has found that in terms of the Constitutional Prosecutor's request in Pristina, the detention measures against the two defendants have been determined, as if the defendants are to be found in freedom there is the danger of their escape in view of the burden of criminal work, respectively, the damage caused by this criminal offence, and in the concrete case we are dealing with the loss of life of the late J.Z. and the cause of severe bodily injury to the Y.I and the prior sanctions for this criminal act.

Talks have a right to complaint against that ruling at Kosovo Court of Appeal