Gjakova municipality indicts Dragica Gashiqi

Gjakova's municipality has handed over a lawsuit to the Gjakova Foundation Court, under which “anisation of the contract for rent of the apartment at the request for temporary mass”, for Dragica Gashiq, who early June of this year, became the first Serb to return to live in this municipality.

The court's spokesman, Leka Muqaj, has confirmed to Radio Free Europe that the plaintiff, the Gjakova municipality, in this court has filed charges against D.G., with an unknown address demanding that the indictee be appointed provisional legal representative, as the same is not known residence.

“The Constitutional Court in Gjakova has issued a decision forcing the plaintiff, the Gjakova municipality, which, in the name of the pre-emptive for the provision of the interim representative's expenses, within the three-day deadline, to deposit in the ark of this court, the amount of money at the height of 1,000 euros, under threat of legal consequences”, has declared Muqaj. He has added that after the municipality has fulfilled its obligations, the court will hold the controversial procedure between the parties.

From the cabinet of Gjakova Mayor Adrian Djindey, they have declined to comment on the case.

Gashiq Leaves Home temporarily
Dragica Gashic has issued her residence in Gjakova on June 30th, because, as she points out, she does not feel secure. She tried to change the outer door of the apartment and replace it with an armoured one, but police did not allow her to do so, explaining that she should get a municipal permit for something like that.

In a conversation with REL on July 6th, she said she was staying with her sister in the village of Kline's Great Krusevo. Gashic added that lawyers from the “Office of the Free Legal Assistance” announced on July 6th that the Gjakova municipality had launched a criminal procedure against it, claiming the residence is not owned by it.
These people from Gjakova indicted me, as if it were not my residence, so they want to take it, and so now a lawyer came in to collect the evidence I have from the agency (Kosovo Agency for Comparison and Verification of Property)”, Gashi said, without specifying which office of legal aid is being referred to.

The Kosovo Property Agency cleared Dragica Gashi's residence in Gjakova, where it was deployed on June 9th, with the claim that its desire to return to Kosovo had been realised. By that day, an Albanian family from Kosovo had lived in this apartment.

The Kosovar Property Agency told Free Europe Radio they made the decision to return Gashiqi's apartment, on the basis of documentation that was presented, and this agency added that it has asked Habitti to share her residence.

“It has a decision from us (Kosovo Property Agency) and if it sends a request for expulsion (of the usurpers), we are obliged to expel anyone who is illegal there”, this agency said.

Gashiq thus became the first Serbian woman to return to Gjakova after the 1999 war.

Dragica Gashic says it is undesirable in Gjakova and that there have been attacks every day, so police escort him everywhere, even when he went to the store.

Because of this, she decided to replace the door of the apartment with an armoured man, and she wanted to put irons on it, but this was not allowed.

Gashi was planning to return to Gjakova, but now the court process has complicated its plans.

She claims she has all the documentation that proves she owns the apartment.

It is alleged that Dragica Gashic is undesirable in Gjakova because she worked in Serbian police in the pre-war period. But she pointed out that she did no harm to anyone and that she worked only as a cleaning woman in the police force.

Her return had prompted reactions within this municipality.

Nysrete Kumnova from the association “mothers' calls from” by Gjakova had stated to REL that the families of the missing persons did not approve Gashi's return to Gjakova.

In Gjakova, during the war in 1998 and 1999, more than 1,000 Albanian civilians have been killed, most of them males. Some of them are still homeless.