Haxhiu casts doubt on Hajriz murder, says escape of prisoners took place with the help of Serb criminal groups

Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu has reacted after Faton Hajrizi's assassination in Loznica, Serbia.

It casts doubt on the authenticity of the news of Hajriz's murder.

“Through former spokesman for Slobodan Milosevic's party (SPS), now its chairman and Serbia's minister of internal affairs, Ivica Dacic, gave news that the fugitive from prison in Kosovo, Faton Hajriz, convicted of several serious criminal acts, has been killed. The information these days were controversial, so we can't know for sure whether he is really killed and whether he is killed in the territory of Serbia or Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including other important and necessary details for the investigation. There is definitely a need for extensive and deep investigation to whiteen the truth of this case”, Haxhi said.

Haxhiu stresses that cases of the escape of some from Kosovo prisons are doubled under the organisation of criminal groups linked to power structures on Serbia's territory.

The key “has to point to the fact that the escape of some people who are being sought by responsible institutions in the Republic of Kosovo is being done in only one direction: that of Serbia's territory. Information from our bodies suggests that, on at least in some cases, these escapes have been created, organised, co-organised and facilitated by criminal groups linked to power structures on Serbia's territory”, Haxhiu stressed.

“On the other hand, the use of the police's criminal murder act by the interior minister in Serbia as driving the legitimacy base to create the need for a counterattack against Albanians and their institutions, or to create a circumstance of equality with unmatched events in any dimension, is totally unacceptable and deliberate. This rhetoric of the Government in Belgrade is a warning for future events cooked in Belgrade, which have a clear chauvinist and ethno-political perspective”, Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu added.