Three ex-Deputees were missing again, tear gas hearings charged by the justice minister.

The session was presented only by the accused Albulen Haxhiu, who claimed to want protection on official duty.

While in the absence of Lekaj indictees, Cadaj-Bujupi and Battiu the judge of the case, Bujar Ahmeti interrupted today's session and set the same for another date.

Justice Ahmeti announced that for the accused Lekaj and Baftiu, the court has no evidence that the same have accepted the invitation, which, according to the announcement, has been displaced from the address.

As for the accused, Qadaj Bujupi, the court has submitted a regular invitation, but the same has not responded to this invitation.

Also, Judge Ahemti announced to the parties that from the defender of the accused Lekaj, lawyer Musa Damatti, through a parachute handed over to this court, he has asked the court for the depletion of this session.

Otherwise the November 21st 2025 session had failed in the absence of indictees, Pal Lekaj, Besa Battiu and Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, reports Justice Vow, broadcast Periscope.

In this case, Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu, Deputy Paul Lekaj and former Presidents Donika Cadaj-Bujupi and Besa Battiu are charged with possession of tear gas in the Kosovo Assembly in 2016.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina on May 18th 2021, in the absence of evidence, had cleared them of unlicensed weapons charges -- Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu, MP Pal Lekaj and former deputate Donika Kadaj-Bujupi and Besa Battiu -- on charges of having tear gas in the Kosovo Assembly.

However, against this act of complaint, the Constitutional Prosecutor in Pristina had filed, where at the hearing held on October 6, 2022, this prosecutor had demanded the return of the case to the retrial.

Later, the Court of Appeals on October 14, 2022, has made the verdict with which it has approved the Constitutional Prosecutor's complaint in Pristina and violated the Act of Basic Court of Pristina, turning the case into retrial.

According to the indictment filed on April 8, 2016, Pal Lekaj, Besa Battiu, Donika Cadaj-Bujupi and Albulen Haxhiu are charged with without authorization having possessed tear gas canisters.

The indictment says that on February 19, 2016, around 12:20, in the Kosovo Parliament hall, after a pause in the Parliament's work, until the accused were returning to the hall during the search by the security workers of the Parliament, the accused had been found and seized by a tear gas tank, which they held without authorization.

For these actions, the four accused are said to have each separately committed criminal work “holding ownership, control or unauthorized possession of weapons” by Article 374, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code. /Periscope/