The defence requires Haradinaj's Gucati to be declared innocent: Acting in Public Interest

After the prosecution has declared that the accused have taken concrete actions and, according to the SPS, the same should be convicted, their defence has demanded independent verdict from the court and based on objective analysis of the law.

Hysni Gucatt's lawyer, Jonathan Elistan Rees, has said his defense should be declared innocent.

“One of the elements that they set up is a concrete ram, a concrete goal, while we made and set forth our stand, we made the difference between the concrete goal and the eventual goal and in fact their whole issue rests on this element, that my client has acted with concrete intent, and I call on the juroI to take this approach, so keep the ZPS responsible for this issue that is the main tail of their case. So they have to prove their case, because they've filed charges, so they've raised the cover of the case they say they've tried it, and if they've proven it beyond reasonable doubt then you'll make the decision, but if this isn't the case then the court should stop judging”, Ress said.

He has said that the SPS should testify beyond reasonable doubt whether there were concrete goals or wills from the accused, on the contrary it should be declared innocence.

You were to try to measure their case based on this element, and if the ZPS does not testify beyond the reasonable suspicion of objective or concrete intent, then we must declare innocence. I don't want to repeat myself, but I just want to remind you of the court, the success or failure of the court process of this case is not measured if the decision taken by the court is due to guilt or innocence, but is measured by the ability to be fair with the accused and to respect the dignity of all the participants in this” judicial process, Gucat's lawyer said.

And the defence of Nasim Haradinaj, lawyer Toby Cadman, has stated that all actions of the accused regarding files reached at OVL-KLA have been in public interest.

The prosecutor tried to talk about the climate of fear in order to justify his work, but what we would say is that this is about a release in public interest, properly motivated to prevent injustice, we hold that public interest is important”, Cadman said.

He has asked the court to handle public interest until he is searching for the truth.

“He is a beacon, he has done his job to find the truth and so we ask the court to handle public interest when he finds the truth. The prosecution wants to hide the truth about this intervention of her system, it's our duty as a protective side, and then the trial shame of blowing the whistle at the moment. This is an issue in which we are forbidden to mention here the names which my client believes are persons who have participated in the massacre in Kosovo. We haven't seen the documents and as I said yesterday at the center of this case is the chain of holding documents which was flawed and for which the SPS hasn't given their answer”, he said.

Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj were arrested on 25 September 2020, since they are even staying in custody at The Hague.

The flow of documents from the Special, which by a still unknown person have been sent to O'O offices VL- The KLA, and publicisation of this event by the leaders of the organisation, is the reason Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj are being tried.

On them are charges of criminal acts against administration of justice, namely obstructing official persons in performing official duties, fearing witnesses, revenge, and violating the secret of the procedure.