Sweden sentenced to life in Kosovo prison that killed parents in Prizren

The Adriatic Hadri of Prizren will spend the rest of his life in prison. He was sentenced yesterday by the Stockholm District Court to life in prison for killing his parents, Durim and Suada Hadr.

The news was made known by the Court on her official page. Besides serving a life sentence, he must also pay compensation to his brothers and sisters.

The Stockholm District Court today (March 22nd) has convicted a 37-year-old man of killing his parents by shooting a gun to his head. The incident occurred on January 20, 2020, in the town of Prizren, Kosovo. Crime has been described as murder, and the penalty is a life sentence. The convicted person must also pay compensation to the brothers and/or sisters, who have been left without parents”, says the court's announcement.

According to the tribunal, 37-year-old killed parents for financial gain and that their murder had been planned earlier.

The witnesses against the 37-year-old man included, among other things, the broad material from his mobile phone and his computer. The evidence revealed that the 37-year-old had tried to rent before he himself committed acts. He came in contact with the murder weapon breaking his parents' safe house. It has also been found that the 37-year-old thought that through his parents' murder he would take control of family assets”, the announcement says further.

What had happened?

At the end of January last year, the country was shocked by a double murder that had occurred in Prizren. Inside the Hadri family home in the neighborhood “Ortac”, Durim and Suada Hadri were found dead.

They had lived and worked in Sweden for years until they came to Kosovo on vacation.

For their murder, the only suspect was their son, the Adriatic, who had fled Kosovo, right after the case. He was arrested by Swedish authorities in March last year.

The trial had also begun for him, the cause of invisibility for him to be extradited to Kosovo.

Prizren Prosecutor's spokeswoman, Victory Mehmeti, had told Gazeta Express that in the absence of any international judicial co-operation agreement in the middle of the Republic of Kosovo, Swedish authorities have announced that the extradition of the son of Cifi Hadri is not possible.

“Since the defendant in question is Swedish citizen and that in the absence of any bilateral international judicial co-operation agreement, respectively extradition between the Republic of Kosovo and Sweden, and that Swedish authorities on the basis of their legislation in force do not allow extradition for their citizens, then and have told us beforehand that the defendant's eventual extradition is not possible due to these procedures, Mehmeti had said.

In the absence of such an agreement, Prizren's prosecution had submitted calls for the transfer of criminal procedure from the Republic of Kosovo to Sweden, which had received the approval of Swedish authorities.

“Aday, under these circumstances, the Constitutional Prosecutor in Prizren through the Department of International Jury Co-operation under the Ministry of Justice, has filed a request for the transfer of criminal procedure against defendants A.H., from the Republic of Kosovo to that of Sweden, which has also been approved by Swedish authorities”, Mehmeti said.

The Swedish prosecutor had begun to prosecute Hadr on January 15th of this year until yesterday the decision was made.

The case attorney, Calmvik Olofh, in a response to the Express, had commended Prizren's prosecutors and police for working on the case.

“We would also like to say that we have received much help from prosecutors and police in Prizren, who have done a wonderful job in this case”, the prosecutor's answers were said.

Otherwise, the killing of the couple who lived in Stockholm and had Swedish citizenship had been published in the media.

Swedish police had said at the time they were involved in investigations.

“As is usually the case with events happening abroad, it is local authorities dealing with preliminary investigations. Swedish police are helping on this occasion”, spokeswoman Nadia Jaber had said.