Freed from tear gas charges Albulen Hadziu with other politicians

They have been acquitted of charges in the absence of evidence.

The indictment's announcement was made by Judge Fatime Drimaku, who said that in the absence of evidence, the accused are acquitted of charges, reports “Justice Vow Vow”.

According to the chairman of the court, by managing material evidence, namely proof of the return of items, documentation and confirmation of the sequentification of items, the court estimates that it cannot prove that the defendants committed criminal work, since there is no expertise that could prove that the items seized could not be weapons in accordance with the law on weapons.

Also, according to the judge, even from confirmation of the return of the item, the court considers that if they were weapons as the prosecution claims, the same would not have returned to the defendant Lekaj.

Initially, the judge of this case has been Judge Naim Krasniqi Yashanica, but after passing it from the Randa Crime Department to the General Department, this case will be tried by Judge Fatime Dermaku.

According to the indictment filed on April 8, 2016, Lekaj, Baftiu, Cadaj-Bujupi and Haxhiu are charged with without authorization having possessed tear gas canisters.

The indictment says that on February 19, 2016, around 12:20, in the Kosovo Parliament hall, after a pause in the Parliament's work until the accused were returning to the hall during the check by the Parliament's security workers, the accused had been found and seized by a tear gas balloon, which they kept without authorization.

For these actions, the four indictees are suspected to have each separately committed criminal work “ownership, control or unauthorized possession of weapons” by Article 374, paragraph 1 of KPRK. /A Vow for Justice