Prondon asks 25 thousand euros to Abelard Tahiri for slander

25 thousand euros is the amount that Princeton Sadriu, chief of the Kosovo Diplomatic Mission in Northern Macedonia, is asking for from Abelard Tahiri, former justice minister and currently MP from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), through the slander indictment.

In the indictment exercised in May 2020, Abelard Tahiri, on the “Argument Plus” show, had said that the husband of former Kosovo Assembly Speaker Vjosa Osmani, has been deemed illegal as “consul” in northern Macedonia and that the same one has escaped dismissal due to political ties.

In this case, it is not yet scheduled to hold a court hearing.

Such a thing, for the “Justice Vow”, has confirmed the case judge, Alaintin Trsnjak.

Through the indictment exercised on May 18th 2020, plaintiff Pridon Sadriou is calling from indictee Abelard Tahiri for the damages worth 25 thousand euros due to slander.

The indictment reportedly stated that the indictee on February 21, 2020, in the quality of guest's performance <x0nim Plus”, on Radio Television 21, stating the dismissals of diplomatic representatives made by Foreign Affairs Minister Glauk Konjufca, among other things, has declared “... with family connections I believe it has moved the husband of the Speaker of Parliament that we have today equally appointed consul in Macedonia, and why the foreign minister exclude him, did not bring him, so did they not remove him from his position. I was very pleased to have brought in those who went illegally, but I don't need it on political grounds. He amnitated the people, Amnistomized related people, who have LDK relatives, such as the concrete case, the husband, the husband of Mrs. Vjosa Osmani's Parliament, who was also illegally sent away, but we have him serving”.

Further in the indictment it is said to be true that the plaintiff is the diplomatic representative of the Republic of Kosovo in Northern Macedonia, which has been appointed on July 15th 2019, but his appointment has not been illegally made. His appointment as minister in this state is said to have been made in line with Kosovo legislation, namely the Law on Foreign Service, as well as the Order for Foreign Service.

The indictment reportedly in itself the fact that the indictee has now referred to the plaintiff as “consul” and that the same one has not been fired because of political ties, clearly shows that his statement is untrue and that the same one has known that the public is presenting false facts to the plaintiff now, causing him to damage his reputation and psychiatric suffering.

Based on the indictment, the plaintiff on April 2, 2020, via email has been directed to the indictee with a request for forgiveness and for exposing the slander he made through the TV media, but the indictee has not responded and acted on that request, reports the “Bet on Justice”.

On the other hand, it says that the defendant's slanderous statement was made through a medium, and that means that the number of people who had access has been enormous, so that now the plaintiff has been damaged by his reputation.

The plaintiff has backed the Civil Law against Slander and Fence, specifically in Article 3 (a) and (a) Article 4 paragraph 1 and 2, Article 5 paragraph 1, article 14 paragraph 1, and Article 16 of this law, in the Law on Obligations Relations specifically in Article 136, 137, 140, 183 of this law, and in the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, respectively, at Article 36 and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Therefore, the plaintiff by this indictment is seeking from the court to force the indictee to pay him in the name of no material damage for his reputation damage and due to psychic suffering pay the total amount of 25 thousand euros, all of it with 8% legal interest, from the moment the damage was caused to the complete realization of the requirement.

It is also required that the indictee be forced to make his slanderous statement made on February 21, 2020, on RTV 21, reject it in the same media, in the same form of transmission, and to apologise, as well as to prevent the same from repeating similar statements or publication, as well as judicial spending and attorney spending.

Tahiri has contested the plaintiff's indictment with the answer to the indictment issued in May 2021, with the reasoning that under the Law on Discretion and Appeals, and on the basis of Strasbourg's practice, the prosecution does not have the right to compensate on the basis of the filed indictment, since the same are said to be prohibited on the basis of Article 3.3 of the Law for the Contestimation Procedure Procedure.

Also in response to the indictment reportedly in concrete cases, the indictee has expressed an opinion that does not harm the prosecution's rights and is subject to public interest.

Therefore, this opinion is said to be within the framework of freedom of the party indicted for free expression, with no legal consequences and restrictions under the constitution and the law.