Crime in Decani where bus driver and two students were killed, trial begins next week

The Act against them was set up two weeks ago. Kreshnik's Kastriot Mehmetaj is accused of co-chairman of grave murder, until Halil Mehmetaj is pushing for serious murder.

After a week, the trial will begin for one of the most serious cases that has occurred in Kosovo. The accused of attacking the bus in Glodjan, where the bus driver and two students were killed, will appear before the tribunal on May 24th.

The date of the trial's launch has confirmed for Gazeta Express, spokeswoman for the Foundation Court in Pec, Tringa Zhuti.

With your request for information, we inform you that the initial hearing in the triple murder case in the village of Glodjan is set for May 24, 2023, at 10:18x1>, Zhuuti declared.

The act in this case was set up two weeks ago by Pec's Founding Prosecutor.

The case prosecutor, Sahide Gashi, had claimed that against Kastriot and Kreshnik Mehmetaj, an indictment has been filed as the co-chairman of grave murder, until against Halil Mehmetaj for inciting the serious murder.

Peja Constitutional Prosecutor Sahid Gashi has announced that an indictment has been filed for Glogdjan's tragedy, where three people were killed.

“announced that after the investigation, the prosecution today dated 5 May has filed charges against Kastriot Mehmetaj and Kreshnik Mehmetaj for criminal work as the co-chairman of the serious murder”, Gashi had declared before reporters.

For Malsor Mehmetaj, Gashi had announced that they have fired the investigation because Prosecutor “has failed to prove the same has in any way been involved in the preparation, assistance or implementation of the crime act”.

The investigative findings: Target was the driver, crime was well planned

On the day she announced the indictment's establishment, prosecutor Gashi stated that after all the evidence, evidence and forensic analysis, the target of the suspects was bus driver and that crime was well planned.

Commenting on the investigation's findings, the prosecutor found that the chief officer had been pretending that night to be drunk or troubled to force the driver to slow down the bus speed.

After collecting all information from the Forenzice Unit, from the local experting of the event, the isolation of the tracks, the assurance of evidence that and other investigative actions, we can confirm with high credibility that there is no indifference to terrorist attack and that we are dealing with a most likely masked executioner, the target of the attack was the bus driver and that we are dealing with a well-planned crime and that on the basis of the indicators that we had as it is: The site's selection, where there were no houses in the vicinity, most of the terrain was covered with trees and bushes, which made visibility difficult by random passersby and video coverage; Time, winter season, atmosphere conditions, rain. The chief was aware of the bus's route, the exact time of reaching the scene, as well as the chief's actions, such as pretending to be drunk or troubled to force the driver to slow down, eventually to stop him and catch him by surprise. The removal of the chief without leaving any trace is evidence that the same one has been well acquainted with the ground or that there have been associates who have helped him get away immediately after the attack”, Gashi had declared.

She had related exactly the actions taken to make the case worse, from interviewing the surviving bus passengers to cameras from the bus's launch site.

The “have been identified almost all persons and cars that were circulated at the moment on the road axis. All the evidence we have provided has been urgently sent to the Kosovar Agency for Forenzice for examination. E-communication and inputs from two operators have been provided V ALA and IPK0. Recordings of all cameras along the bus route “Erblin” have been secured from the bus station in Gjakova to Glodjan, but have continued further on to verify the movements. The first interviews were taken with surviving bus passengers, the account of the chief and the random victims was released, and we came to a preliminary conclusion”, she said.

What had happened?

The triple murder took place on November 26, 2021, shortly before 7:00. That night, the bus carrying students from Gjakova to Decan was attacked by Kalashnikov. Bus driver Gani Gjokaj and two students, Genta Mustafaj and Ledion Hamzaj, were killed.

Initially, it was talked about terrorist attacks, but police reported that there is no reason to believe the attack could have such motives.

Two days after the tragic case, the Government of Kosovo, along with the Police, had announced that they would offer a reward of 20,000 euros to anyone providing information that allows for the arrest of Decan's author or perpetrators.

The next day, the Department of Serious Crime at the Founding Prosecutorship in Pec said that he had provided some information that could lead to the dawn of the case.

“We have some indicators that we're tracking and we're moving forward to prove. Some circumstances tell us it's not going to be easy, but I'm optimistic we're going to do it”, he said about REL, the prosecutor of the case, Sahide Gashi.

On December 11, 2021, Pec's Constitutional Prosecutor, exactly Chief Prosecutor Agim Kurmeha, went to the media conference and announced that three suspects have been arrested in the case.

Another suspect in the case was arrested in February of last year.

An official statement has never been given on the motive, but in the media it has been described several times as a suicide probe track a few years ago, for which someone blamed the bus driver.

What she committed suicide was the suspect's daughter-in-law for the bus attack.