14 minutes agoSpecial Prosecutor Lost Battle Against Limaj Now Aims to Condemn KLA Leaders
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The chief prosecutor at the Special Court against former KLA leaders, Alex Whiting, has been the prosecutor in the process against Fatmir Limaj in The Hague, which he lost and this defeat has greatly frustrated him, said Serbian lawyer Tomislav Visnjic, who claims he is personally better known. Visnjic has been a defender of the accused. [...]
Visnjic has been a defender of various Serbian war crimes indictees in The Hague for about 18 years.
I talked to him after that trial, and he was very frustrated by the way he lost this subject, I'm talking about legal arguments. But then he was at Harvard and then he was elected chief prosecutor, and now we have a person who if we neglect the personal approach that I believe he still has, he has to prove something similar to what has already proved unsuccessful in the first procedure. On the other hand, he has a cohesive team with an expanded” compound, Visnjic was quoted as saying Tv Euronews Serbia.
The Serbian lawyer has noted that several times during the first three days of trial against KLA leaders indirect defence lawyers have been summoned to prosecutor Whiting, referring to the act of prejudice in the Limaj case, this television reports.
Fatmir Limaj has been declared innocent by The Hague Tribunal in 2005. Isak Musliu was released along with Limaj, meanwhile Haradin Balaj has been sentenced.
An indictment against former President Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi are also involved that in the process against Limaj in The Hague, charges have been dismissed.
The fact that for the second time he is a prosecutor against KLA members makes Whiting's role very interesting, estimates lawyer Visnjic.
A short biography of Whiting has also been published on the Tv Euronews website.
He is a French and US national prosecutor with multi-year experience in national and international criminal proceedings. Before joining the Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Whitting was US federal prosecutor, originally at the Civil Rights Department's Criminal Division in Washington and later at the US Prosecutor's Office in Boston, where he dealt with cases of organised crime and corruption.
He has been appointed the task of chief prosecutor in place of Jack Smith, who has been appointed a special prosecutor in investigations against former US President Donald Trump.
