The prosecution demands that Caslav Joliq be found guilty for other points of the indictment, defence says he is not a perpetrators of criminal acts.

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At the Court of Appeals on Thursday, there has been an elaboration of complaints by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo and the protection of accused Caslav Joliq against the act of Constitutional Court in Pristina, which Joliqi sentenced to 5 years and 6 months in prison in the retrial. The prosecution demanded that the Constitutional Act be changed and that the accused be found guilty of other points of the indictment, while the defence said the verdict is not fair, so it called for a free trial or retrial.

The Appeals College in this case consisted of Avni Mehmeti-chairman, Vaton Durguti-the reference judge and EU member Kreshnik Radoniqi, reports “Justice Vow“.

Judge Durguti stressed that the prosecution has filed complaints because of essential violations of the penal procedure provisions and the mistaken confirmation of the actual situation. It has proposed that the first degree act be changed and that the accused Jolick be punished for both the B and C points of the indictment.

While the defender of indictee Joliq, lawyer Miodrag Brklak, said the first-degree indictment where the accused has been convicted is not fair and that the Court has not applied towards legal provisions because it has not clearly and overall assessed the crucial facts on this issue.

The lawyer said his defense has been found guilty as co-chairman, while in the act of not one word is stated how the co-ordination of the criminal work, where there is the preliminary agreement of co-ordination, the roles of co-chairees, and the unique desire of participants.

Also, lawyer Brcko said that Caslav Joliq is not the performer of this criminal act, that he was neither a regular police officer nor irregular, nor was he at the site when the helicopter crashed.

The lawyer has proposed that the accused be acquitted or that the case be turned into retrial.

Otherwise, on June 10, 2024, the Constitutional Court in Pristina had sentenced defendant Joliq to eight years in prison for war crimes in the city of Istog. But, the Court of Appeals on November 4th, 2024, has turned the case against him into retrial.

In the retrial, the Foundation on May 23rd 2025 sentenced Joliqi to 5 years and 6 months in prison.

Otherwise, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo on November 18th, 2022 has filed charges against defendants Caslav Jolic with the argument that during the time of war in Kosovo from January 1998 to June 21, 1999, in the territory of the Istog municipality in co-ordination with others, violating international law rules, applied the torture measures and the cause of major suffering or violation of body integrity or health that have not directly participated in the conflict for reasons related to the war.

According to the indictment, in May 1998 in the village of Gurakoc, a helicopter of Serbian police and military forces had been crashed in the village of Blagaq, and for that reason the injured Zef Malsia was escorting two international journalists -- one English and the other Belgian -- along with an Albanian translator and reaching the site of the event, from the home of Rosajcinovic's family, 5 persons dressed in Serbian police uniforms, Radule (Dule), Pajrinovic, Caslav Joliq, Darcikko, Milocik, and another unidentified person who had been accused of having brought journalists to the country for physical assaulting and other crimes.

The indictment says that two of the uniformed policemen had taken him by arm and in the presence of journalists had started punching and kicking for a period of about 20 minutes until at a moment the defendant identified by the nickname “Dulle” had hit him with boxing on the head, with the injured robbers losing consciousness and falling to the ground, causing serious bodily injuries, which he had treated in domestic conditions, then journalists removed from the site of the incident and had returned to Guocak home, while some as a result of the war was damaged.

In accordance with the charge, about March 15, 1998, until the damage to Naim Ferati was drinking coffee at the restaurant “The taste” in Gurakoc, accompanied by Shemsi Kabashi restaurant owner Muje Hayzeraj, Refik Hajzeraj and Nue Pepaj, had gone to five Serb police officers and taken him to the neck dragging him out of the bar and that the five physically attacked him by hitting him in different parts of the body.

Of them, the indictment says that police officer named Rade Pitulic had several times hit the gun's barrel in his head, then covered his entire body with blood and dragged him to the police station in Gurakoc, in those moments the first incident had seen the police officer Nexmedin Curri being beaten by the same group of policemen, sending him to the injured station Naim Ferati warned him that by 5: 00 p.m. he would be executed and was constantly under police company Hali Klovac and Popovac.

Always in accordance with the indictment, a superior officer named Gruica Velovij had arrived and had released the injured from the police station, then with the help of several of his neighbors had arrived to go to the Istog hospital, where he had been treated by Dr. Dzevat Avdij, while on March 28, 1999, he was ordered by Serbian police to leave the house as any other resident of the village and had headed for Albania, where he had been again tortured and looted by Serb forces, while as a result of the war has suffered material damage to 50 thousand German brands.

Then, in the indictment reportedly about March 15, 1998, the injured Necmetdin Curri had left Guracoci for the village of Vrell in the Istog municipality to take his family, where he had arrived at the police checkpoint in the village of Gurakoc, had been stopped by police and two of the police members, one known as “Laza” and the unidentified one had broken into the car and demanded from the injured person to send it to the person's home with the nickname “Mala”.

Then the indictment says that since the injured man had been told that he did not know the person's home, the same had asked the injured person to return to the center of the village of Gurakoc, exactly where the person named “had worked. Slavisa”, then arriving in front of the store which was near the police checkpoint named Rade Pitulic was addressed to the defendants with the words “how you are walking in with the iredintintintint”, while the person with the nickname “Jolici <X5> had pulled out of the car with the assault on the automatic weapon, and from there he dragged him by sending him to a nearby and had continued beating some police officers and had pulled the damaged from the car with the broken teeth.

While the defendant Jolic reportedly told the injured “you are not in Kosovo, but you are in Serbia, here is Serbia, and this is where Ibrahim Rugova is not speaking, but Milosevic”, while the injured so he takes the car and leaves the village of Gurakoc, and during his departure he had seen how Serb police officers beat the injured Naim Ferati while he had continued on his way to his home and then fled to Montenegro, where he had returned to Kosovo after the end of the war.

With that, Calsav Jolic is charged with co-ordination of the criminal work “war crimes against the civilian population”, punishable according to Article 142 concerning Article 22 of the Criminal Law of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia as law in force at the time of the commission.