10 biggest killings in Kosovo for which justice cannot find the culprits

The increase in the number of murders in Kosovo is creating an uncertain environment for its citizens, and this uncertainty is growing when perpetrators are not held responsible for the killings committed or when the penalty of the perpetrators is taking years to a final epilog.

Not only is the adequate treatment of these cases and within an optimum term is causing negative consistency not only among the victims' families of these processes but also for all citizens, who are negatively affecting their faith in the justice system but also in their living in a safe and secure environment.

The non-recognition of cases of murder consists mainly in violating the pre-pre-prevented legal provisions with the Code of Criminal Procedure, a fact that leads cases to a constant retrial, or even to absolution of truth in certain cases due to lack of professionalism during the investigation of these murders.

IKD has been systematically monitoring the justice system since 2015, including monitoring cases of murder.

From the following monitoring of this text, there will be 10 murders, most of which, although long ago, have not yet received a final sentence in which, for some, this has not been carried out even after six judicial acts of law.

By analyzing these cases, there are 10 murders which, apart from the long procedure in the courts, are also more characteristic of their form of conduct. Some of these murders were brutally committed as murder by hiding the victim in the mountain, hammer killing, axes, killing the body of victims, killing family members, or killing committed in the centre of the capital, in Pristina.

The murder of Donjata Pajaziaj in the mountains of Strellci

Donjet Pajasitaj in 2015 had been cut off from life in the Strellz Mountains in a cruel manner that the murder allegedly committed by her cousin Naser Pajazitaj.

Regarding this case so far, six judgments (three from the first degree, two from the Court of Appeals and one from the Supreme Court) have been declared, but the process in this case has not yet made a final decision.

Prosecutor: Dorjeta Pajaziaj was killed with two bullets in her head and her body was hiding

The Constitutional Prosecutor in Pec on June 8th 2017 had filed charges of serious murder against Naser Pajaziaj. According to this indictment, he allegedly took the victim by car to the village of Strelc, had sent her to the mountains of Strallci, had killed her with two bullets and lost her tracks, covered her body with several trees.

Donjeta Pajazit's family had only received the news of her death after more than a month when her body had been found by occasional passersby.

With these actions, the prosecution charges the accused with criminal acts “severe murder” and “illegal possession”

Six acquittals, life sentences and retrial against Naser Pajasitaj.

Despite the start of the judicial process so far and so far, the court has ruled on six different decisions, Pajasitaj still has the status of the accused person, because all decisions in the first degree to him have been broken from the highest degree.

The first act was taken by the Constitutional Court in Pec in March 2018. This court had found that, towards Naser Pajasitaj, there was no evidence in which he proved to be guilty of the criminal acts he was accused of, and thus was declared a free trial.

The prosecution, which was approved by the Court of Appeals, had filed complaints against this ruling, thus undermining the Peja Court's case and turning the course into retrial.

After the subject had returned to the Constitutional Court retrial in Pec, with evidence administered at the Court, it found Naser Pajasitaj was guilty of charges against him, condemning him to the highest sentence in Kosovo, namely, serving life imprisonment. This sentence was also confirmed by the Court of Appeals in July 2019.

Despite the convictions of two court institutions, Naser Pajazitaj was sentenced to life imprisonment after the subject had gone to the Supreme Court, it had ruled violations of the law in these two acts and the subject had returned him to the Constitutional Court in Pec.

Following the return of the case in the retrial, with the reasoning of averting doubts about the justice system, the Constitutional Court in Pec with the Court of Appeals ruling was excluded from this case and the subject had been delegated to competence, the Constitutional Court in Ferizaj.

Just as the Court in Pec and Appeals had earlier acted, so the Constitutional Court in Ferizaj, following the third retrial of the case, on May 27, 2021, had convicted Naser Pajazitain, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Neither did this act of prejudice, such as the other judgments, in this case failed to take the formal form, because after the accused had filed a complaint with the Court of Appeals, the same had decided that the case would return to retrial again.

This retrial process will be the fourth time when the first instance will judge this case, but before that process of Naser Pajazitaj's defense has yet begun, has asked Apel to be expelled from the Ferizaj Court as well from handling the case.

Murder in “B O - What? V IVANT”

The murder, which had shaken the capital's centre in 2014, where the security of one of the most frequent establishments in downtown Pristina was killed, is still without epilogue.

Actual: The murder came after Bon Vivat security worker announced to customers that the table is reserved

In connection with this event, Pristina's Constitutional Prosecutor on July 7, 2015, had filed charges with two persons held responsible for the murder of the late Nundman Uka, charging them with the criminal offence of serious murder in co-ordination, as well as each and all for the illegal weapons criminal work.

According to the prosecution, on October 13, 2014, the local manager Ilir Misin had asked them if they had reserved tables, where the same ones had responded to “We never made booking” and had continued sitting on the terrace, in the back of the bar.

According to the indictment, the bar manager had told the late Uka to remove the defendants from the bar, since the same had no reservations, and once the late Uka entered the club room, the defendants were up from the table and went towards him, attacking him.

In order to deprive Masar Gerdovci of his life at first had pulled the gun out of his bag, shooting at the security worker Nundman Uka, who had been humbled in that moment to avoid the shocks which with his feet up towards the defendants who were at the moment heading towards the exit from the club, suddenly the defendant Krasniqi had taken the gun from Masardoci and had fired twice in the direction of now the deceased feeling that the region was injured in the region of the mass bloodshed, as a consequence of the wounds received from QUK.

The disappearance of the weapon as a key test from the prosecution

Although the weapon claimed to have been executed is estimated to be a key test in the court procedure, the same has surprisingly been eliminated without the trial being concluded by the prosecution's organ. The weapon, under the order of the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pristina, was three months before the establishment of the indictment. This was even done without a laboratory examination of the Forenzice, and when the court had demanded that the footsteps of papyrus lines and necessary examinations be confirmed by which one of the accused had shot into the deceased.

Five Courties Insufficient to Find the Guilty of Security Watch Murder

In connection with these charges, the first Act was taken by the Constitutional Court in Pristina in January 2019, which had convicted Massar Gerdovcin of killing the late Uka, serving him for 21 years and 8 months in prison.

In contrast, Sheriff Krasniqi, was found guilty of “participating in beating”, as he was faced with the resumption of criminal acts by serious murder in co-ordination, in participation in beatings, the same had been acquitted of unlicensed weapons enforcement charges, since, according to the court, he had not been proven to have committed such a criminal act. Krasniqi for the criminal act of “participating in beating”, was sentenced to 4 years and three months in prison, although according to KPRK, this criminal offence is punishable by fine or imprisonment for up to three years. Following complaints filed in Appeals by the prosecution and the defense, the Court of Appeals had turned the subject into retrial.

After the retrial, the Constitutional Court in Pristina on December 18th 2020 had taken on trial, with which the accused Gerdovci was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the criminal offence of murder in co-ordination, while the same court has imposed 1,500 euros in fines for the illegal arms work without permission. While, for the criminal offence of murder in co-ordination, accused Krasniqi, the court has pronounced him a prison sentence of six years, in which he will be counted even the time spent in detention.

This act of judgment had again been punished at the Court of Appeals, where the prosecution's complaint and the conviction against the accused Krasniqi had been harshed in eight years' imprisonment, until the rest of the court had remained unchanged.

But that the Supreme Court had retriald the case. According to this court, the first degree court should take into account the actions that convicts are charged with and confirm which actions each of the accused has taken, as well as how their co-chairs and the common desire for the life deprivation of the late Uka person.

While, on March 4th 2022 after nearly 7 years, in the third trial process from the first degree, the indictment has been changed in the case of the murder at the local “Ban Vivant” where, according to prosecutor Armen Hamiti, it is not Sheriff Krasniqi who has deprived of life of the deceased as described in the 2015 indictment, but Masardovci. But according to this prosecutor, both remain accused of deprivation from the life of the deceased.

The case is currently under way.

“Cekic” case

The macabre event in which the late man Naim Hajriz had been deprived of life in a barbarous way had taken place with the aim of gaining wealth from the hands.

The deceased had been first hit with hard tools in the head until he had passed away. Then his body was sent to a location between the village of Smallusa and Dobratin and for the purpose of hiding traces, his body had been burned.

It is alleged that the same was killed with a “cekic”, and for these reasons this case is known by this appointment.

Prosecutor: The victim was kidnapped, killed, burned and then his body was hidden.

For this case, Pristina Constitutional Prosecutorship on January 21, 2010, had filed an indictment with which Gezim Retkocer and Osman Spahiun charged them with the criminal offence of the serious murder. According to this indictment, they had now kidnapped the deceased Naim Hajrizi in order to deprive him of life.

In this regard, the Constitutional Court in Pristina, on July 7, 2015, the two accused of killing Naim Hajriz, had pronounced the two accused a 60-year prison sentence. Ratkozer and Spahiu for the murder were sentenced to 30 years in prison.

But this ruling of the Constitutional Court had been annulled by the Court of Appeals, which in 2016 had turned the case into retrial. During the retrial, accused Ratkocer had declared that on May 17, 2017, the other accused Osman Spahiu, in the name of his lawyers, Rame Dresaj and Hedije Ademi, had demanded that he have 50 thousand euros in order for the case prosecutor, Fikrije Fejzullahu to withdraw from the indictment.

In January 2020, the Pristina Constitutional Court accused of grave murder, Gezim Retkoceri, had again sentenced him to 30 years in prison after having convicted him of killing the late Hajriz in 2009 in Lipjan.

And 10 years after the incident described in the indictment, even the accused Osman Spahiu had pleaded guilty, but it was after the prosecutor of the Fikrije Feyzullahu case, in the final address, had requalified the criminal work against him, from “the grave murder”, to the “the appointment of aiding after the commission of the criminal act”, where Spahi had been convicted of this work for 10 years.

In all ten years after the establishment of this indictment, the court, having approved the defense proposal of accused Retkocer, had made a decision to have the site rebuilt.

At the July 15, 2020, Adpel's college session had reviewed complaints to the January 2020 court by bringing the subject back to retrial, where the process of being accused of Retkoceri is still under way.

“Ever Sekiraqa as suspect of inciting the murder of policeman Triumf Riza”

The murder of police officer Triff Riza, who had occurred August 30th of 2007, was one of the worst events of the day. As the perpetrators of this murder has been found guilty of Arben Berisha, who for the murder of police had been sentenced to 35 years in prison, which sentence has been made of solid form

However, Berisha was not the only person charged with involvement in Riza's murder. A few years later, the indictment was also filed against Enver Sekiraqas, who allegedly pushed convicted Berisha into the police murder.

Prosecutor: Enver Sekiraqa prime suspect in pushing police officer Triumf Riza

In April 2014, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo had filed charges against Enver Seker Sequirah for three criminal acts, for inciting the murder of Triumf Riza, <x0detyrim” and “rape”, where the first-degree court had declared him innocent. The prosecution claims that the incident took place at “Sweiss Casino”, which had been introduced in December 2016, in the middle of Sekirasha and Riza, was one of the motives that led to the murder of Triumf Riza. Arben Selmani was left in this seriously injured incident.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina on May 17th 2016 Enver Sekiraq had convicted him and sentenced him to a unique sentence of 37 years for two criminal acts for “inciting him to commit serious murder” and for the “Debitrim” while released for criminal work “rape”.

The Court of Appeals, on October 24th 2017, had held a hearing concerning the appointment of security measures to Enver Seker Sequirah, after the same court on October 19th, in the evening hours, had freed him from custody and pronounced him the measure of house arrest.

For changing the security measure against him, three Appeal judges -- two of EULEX's ranks -- Elka Ermenkova and Anna Adamska-Gallant, as well as local judge Marem Memaj.

But this court, after just two days, had decided to reassemble her into custody, Enver Sekiraq, and for this reason, a photo published on the social network was taken by friends who had visited her after her release from custody, praising that the same had violated the measure of house arrest she had been assigned.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina, for the second time on September 16th, 2019, had convicted Enver Seker Sequirah of inciting the murder of former police officer Triumf Riza and had pronounced him a 30-year term sentence.

However, the Court of Appeals on March 6, 2020, had decided to approve Sequirah's defense complaint by turning the case for the second time into retrial, as according to Apelit, the first degree of judgment was taken in violation of criminal procedure provisions.

In this regard, after about 1 year on January 12, 2021, the retrial process against Sequirah had begun, which is still under procedure and without a final epilogue.

“The murder of family member Kelmendi with suspects from the Elshani”

The hostility between two families from Peja, Elshani and Kelmendi had led to life deprived person B in the discotheque “City Club” in Pec on 2 January 2010. S, and several other people were injured, including police official Hasan Buqaj. This was the night that Granit Elshani had targeted the murder of member of the Kelmendi family, Valdet.

Prosecutor: For reasons of vengeance, Elshani family member deprives the family son Kelmendi of life

In this case, the Special Prosecutor on November 25, 2016, had filed charges against Granit Elshan, on which charges, the Constitutional Court in Pec, in May 2018, had pronounced 25 years in prison for “grave homicide”, “Cause of general risk”, “severe attempted murder” and “kept ownership, possession and unauthorized use of weapons”.

However, in October 2018, the Court of Appeals had annulled this act by turning the case into a first instance, where the retrial in this case at the Pec Court had lasted about one year and seven months, until the day it was scheduled to become a court judge, but this had not occurred since the court headed by former Judge Sylla Lokij, who retired, had decided to reopen judicial review on the case.

By contrast, this subject has been transferred from the Constitutional Court to Pec to the Gjakova Court, following the request of Constitutional Court in Pec chairman Armend Berisha.

And after the retrial, March 14, 2022 Granit Elshani has been sentenced to 24 years in prison.

Murder in Restaurant “S HEGA”

The clash that took place after midnight on May 2, 2014, at the restaurant “Shega” in the Milosevo of Obiliki had killed two people and two others injured in the event.

In this case, the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pristina on March 11th 2015 had filed charges against four persons allegedly involved in the case.

Prosecutor: Two killed by the downpour of bullets fired between the guests of “but not including” and the local owners

By indictment, in restaurant “Shega” in Milosevo, Obiliki, on May 2, 2014, following an instant dispute between Jeton Saraqi, Nazim Grevall and Lutfi Saraci on one side, as well as Besim Istref and his son Besart Istrefi, on the other hand, both sides had pulled out arms and after the shots had been killed by N.G. and L.S.S., while they were severely injured, restaurant owner Besim Istrefi and his son, Besar Istrefi, on this occasion charged.

The indictment says that the whole event had begun when waitresses had begun preparing for the closure of the bar, in which defendant Jeton Saraci had been at the table with Adem Dautaj and now the late L.S. and N.G. where, for this matter, Saraci had reacted and started arguing with Besart Istrefi, where they had later pulled out their guns and addressed each other.

Always in accordance with the indictment, after the phone call from his son, had come to the restaurant and Besim Istrefi, who had pointed the gun at them, who had then shot nine times in the direction of now the late Lutfi Saraci and Nazim Gervalla, and at that moment started an exchange of gunshots from both sides, with the result of this exchange, the deadly wounds had now received from the late L.S. and N.G., while Besim Besar Istrefi and Betrefi were injured in a row.

In this process, accused of serious attempted murder, illegal possession and counterfeiting of documents is also the life of Saraci.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina, on October 4th of 2018, had convicted him of murder, accused Besim Istrefi, and sentenced him to seven years in prison, while his son, Besart Istrefi, was sentenced to a unique sentence of five years and four months in prison after being convicted of murder and arms without permission.

Meanwhile, the third defendant, Jeton Saraci, had been acquitted of attempted murder and illegal possession.

Disgusted with the first degree act, Pristina Constitutional Prosecutor and defenders of the accused Besim and Besart Istrefi had filed complaints at the Court of Appeals, which the court in April 2019 turned the case into retrial.

Later, the Constitutional Court in Pristina, on March 9, 2021, had released accused Besim and Bessart Istrefi for serious attempted murder, arguing that it was carried out in necessary defense. The accused Besart Istrefi was sentenced to 5 years in prison for illegal possession of weapons.

The prosecution had also released the accused of attempted murder, Saraqi lives, since according to the court it has not been proven the same is the head of this criminal act, while the criminal offence of counterfeiting has been taken into a refusal act because it has reached the prescription of prosecution.

While on November 2nd, 2021, the Court of Appeals has confirmed the liberation trial that the Constitutional Court in Pristina had declared to the accused Bessart Istrefi's confidence.

For the accused, however, Saraqi, the Court of Appeals has estimated that it has not proved to have fired a black pistol in the direction of Besim and Besart Istreff.

As for the criminal act of “falsification of the document”, which Jeton Saraqi was charged with, this court has estimated the absolute prescription of prosecution has been reached.

“Running for revenge motives for business problems”

The previous conflicts of the Llugaliu and Bulnjak family around the business have led three Llugaliu brothers to deprive themselves of life of the Bulnjaku F.B. family member.

Prosecutor: Business disputes have led to the murder of Bulnjakhu family member of the Llugaliu family

In this case, on April 5, 2017, the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pristina had filed an indictment against the Feptard brothers, Esat and Sadat Llugaliu, who on the critical night on the path of “Jima” in Podujevo, following the preliminary agreement between defendants and NN persons, had now deprived of life of the deceased F, B.

According to the indictment, Esat Llugaliu fired a gun at them and shot NN's men and defendants Feptard and Sadat Llugaliu who came out of their car, while NN persons were hiding in the corner of a building.

To escape the shooting, the indictment says that Feta got out of the car and escaped, but now the late F.B. has been shot at with a firearm and in that condition has come out of the car, but after the shooting didn't stop in self-defense she shot at them and fled to the house of the injured Halit Kika.

For these actions, Pristina's Constitutional Prosecutorship charges the accused with criminal acts “serious murder”.

In this regard, the Constitutional Court in Pristina, on July 30th, 2019, had convicted the accused of serious murder, Sedat Llugaliu, while having acquitted his brother, Religion Llugaliu.

Indictee Sedat Llugaliu, for the criminal act “severe murder”, was sentenced to 18 years in prison and had been declared innocent of illegal weapons prosecution.

Feard Llugaliu had been convicted of illegal possession and was sentenced to effective prison for three years and six months, while for criminal work “heavy murder”, the accused had been acquitted of prosecution, since according to the court-led Professor Valbona Musliu-Selimaj, had not been proven the same was committed by this criminal act.

Disgusted with this indictment, the parties had filed complaints at the Court of Appeals. The latter had annulled the act of first degree and had turned the subject into retrial.

Otherwise, procedures have been isolated against accused Esat Llugaliu, since on the night of the event, he has suffered serious bodily injuries with permanent health consequences.

On August 4th 2021, Pristina's Constitutional Court has convicted Sedat Llugaliu and sentenced him to 18 years in prison, while his brother, Feitard Llugali, was sentenced to three and a half years in detention for illegal weapons.

Sedat Llugaliu has been acquitted of illegal possession charges, while for criminal acts “heavy murder” will also be counted as past time in detention, from February 8th 2016.

However, for criminal work “heavy murder”, accused Feitard Llugaliu has been acquitted, since, according to Judge Metom Krasniqi's trial panel, he has not been able to prove that the same is committed to this criminal act.

The girl's death before being buried had been burned”

Family conflicts had led the brothers Murat and Reshat Ademi to brutally deprive the husband of their daughter of Resmije Bytyqi after the same complaint about violence and mistreatment from now on.

Prosecutor: Family disagreements cause the murder of the groom

For this murder on 6 October 2016 by the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pristina, he has accused the Ademi brothers while Resmije Bytyqi is accused of pushing to commit this murder.

Fadil Fetiu was initially accused of failing to report a criminal offence, but on May 7, 2019, he had changed the indictment as far as Fetiu was concerned, so he charged him with the criminal act of assisting in carrying out the criminal offence to murder.

According to the indictment, the Ademi brothers met during 2016 with the accused Resmije Bytyqi, whose daughter is an uncle, and she complained to them that her victim, her husband, was mistreating her by beating her.

Then, according to the prosecution's body, she had asked them to kill her husband, saying that if they couldn't do the murder, she would hire someone else to do it.

The indictment device says that accused Murat Ademi, driven by the accused Bytyqi, has gone to the home of accused Fadil Fetiu, where the late man was working at electrical installations and under threat of firearms has now kidnapped the deceased.

On the other hand, the charge is said to have bound the victim and sent him to an unknown place where the other accused Reshat Ademi was awaiting him, and then he was struck with powerful means, causing serious bodily injury.

All in accordance with the charge, the accused after being beaten up by a victim, was killed by a fire and then buried.

On this charge, the Constitutional Court in Prizren, on October 7, 2019, had convicted him of serious murder, Murat Ademi, and had sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

Resmije Bytyqi, who had been the wife of the deceased for the criminal offence to murder, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Indictee Fadil Fetiu had been convicted of helping him commit a serious murder offense, and for that, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

And the other accused, Reshat Ademi, from the court in the first instance, was found innocent of the crime of committing a serious murder in co-ordination.

According to the trial, the accused Ademi and Bytyqi will also be counted in the sentence as the time spent in custody from October 18th 2016 to the full extent of the act, while the accused Fetiu will be counted in detention from November 18th 2016 to June 28, 2017, as well as from May 20th to 2019 until the integrity of the act.

While the Prizren Court's ruling, following complaints the Court of Appeals has turned into retrial because, according to the Court of Appeals, no reasons have been given for the crucial facts of the case and that it has not taken into account the remarks of defenders of the accused and has also instructed him to listen to the two policemen with whom one accused had collaborated.

While on November 24, 2021, the Constitutional Court in Prizren has sentenced Murat Ademi to 25 years in prison for the “heavy murder”, Resmije Bytycin to 20 years in prison for “Pressing on serious murder”, Fadil Fetiu, 12 years in prison for “, assist in serious murder”. While Reshat Ademi has been cleared of charges for “grave murder”.

While Reshat Ademi was acquitted of committing a serious murder criminal offence, since it was not proved that the same one committed a criminal offence that was placed on him.

“Brother's death for property conflicts with ax's tail”

Due to problems created by property disputes on April 26, 2019, Aslan Nikqi, with an axe's tail, had deprived his brother Mete Nikqi of life.

Prosecutor: Unable to settle down on property, brother kills brother

For this founding prosecutor in Pec, on September 30th, 2019, had filed charges against Aslan Nikqi, where it is said that due to poor reports between victims' families and defendants created by property disputes, the defendant on a critical day along with minor A. N, they go to the mountains to pick up trees and the moment they take the trees, wanting to pull the bodies off the tractor, the victim had informed police about logging trees, and after the police don't answer, they stand up to defendants and minors.

According to the indictment, the victim had viciously attacked the defendant, who managed to take the ax from his hand and ax's tail and hit the victim in the head and other parts of the body, where the minor A.N. participates in the beating and then leaves the scene of the event, causing the victim to become a serious health victim.

As a result of these shocks, the victim is found dead after two days on the streets of the village of Aga Reka and the one on a 1,200m airline from the country where physical fighting started, with what accused Nikqi reportedly carried out in the criminal work of serious murder.

The minor A.N. It is said that he had participated in the beating, which has resulted in the death of now victim Mete Nikqi, with what he committed the criminal act “participating in beating”.

On August 24, 2020, the court had made a rescindation of criminal acts and, from grave murder to serious murder in excess of necessary protection, and against the accused had pronounced 15 years in prison, while the minors had pronounced educational measures of parental-added supervision.

On November 27, 2020, the Court of Appeals had turned the case into retrial after concluding that the decision was taken in violation of criminal procedure provisions.

In this regard the retrial procedure is still under way.

“Borge that was due to murder”

Disagreements over a debt of nearly 77 thousand euros had caused Kreshnik Haliti on March 6, 2017, on the “Myrvette Maksutaj”, in Pec, deliberately and with the aim of gaining the rich benefits granted by life to the late M. Mr.

Prosecutor: Do Not Return Debt cause for life deprivation

According to the indictment, the defendant on the critical day prepared for the murder calls the victim to the centre of Peja, with his car cʹrast the victim has gone and taken the defendant, where they have discussed the debt in the car, as soon as they have arrived at the critical site, the defendant strikes him twice with a gun.

The founding court in Pec, on July 4, 2018, had found the accused Kreshnik Haliti guilty of a unique sentence of 22 years and six months in prison on charges of serious murder and illegal weapons.

However, the Court of Appeals had annulled the act of first degree, and the trial of Halit had continued with the new court, after former head of the court, Joy Mujazier, had passed away.

The final ruling in 2018 following the return of the case to the retrial has not yet been made by the first-instance court, and the retrial process continues. /Betimy for Justice