The prosecution seeks maximum sentence for Srdjan Lazovın, defense free justice

Initially, the final word was delivered in writing by the special prosecutor, Armend Zenelaj, while stressing that, during this trial, the accused Lazovic has been part of the Serbian police structure, reports “Bettim for Justice”

From the evidence administered during this judicial review, it is clear and convincing that here accused Srdjan Lazovic has been part of the Serbian police structure that has exercised systematic violence against Albanian civilians”, prosecutor Zenelaj said.

The prosecutor decalated that he requires the Court's maximum sentence on the accused Lazovic, while proposing the continuation of the detention measure until the integrity of the court.

In view of the particularly serious circumstances of the indictment's work and direct involvement, the brutal and inhuman nature, the prosecution demands that court against accused Srdjan Lazovic be pronounced the maximum sentence before him with the Law for War Crimes against Civil Population”, Zenelaj said.

The final letter was written by the defender of the accused, Lazovic, lawyer Feride Xani, while authorising the extradition by authorising the accused -- lawyer Predrag Milkovic, proposing the release of his defender.

“Based on all allegations, I invite the court to bring about a loose judgment act”, lawyer Milkovic said.

At the file session on December 4, 2024, the accused has been declared innocent.

Otherwise, the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), on November 19th, 2024, has filed charges against defendants Srdjan Lazovic, for war crimes during 1998-1999 in the village of Panorc of Malisheva municipality.

According to the indictment, provided by “Justice Trust”, Srdjan Lazovic is accused of having in the 1998 period of international law, during wartime in Kosovo, in the village of Panorc, the Malishev municipality, operating in co-ordination with still unidentified persons, violating international rule of law and committing arrests and illegal deprivation from freedom, physical and psychic abuse.

In this indictment, ways and circumstances of mistreatment and arrests of the Albanian civilian population have been described, which were not involved in war.

The indictment reportedly states that from September 3rd 1998 to September 5, 1998, in the village of Panorc, the Malisheva municipality, deliberately armed, uniformed, in co-ordination with other members of Serbian police and military forces, with the intent of intimidation, mass deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population, Lazovic has arrested, banned, tortured, physically and psychologically tortured, about 500 civilians, who were not involved in the conflict.

It says that residents of the villages of Malisheva and Cline, along with their families, had been forced to leave their villages and homes, heading towards the mountains of the village of Panorc and the village of the most advanced civilian population, face a roadblock of Serb police forces, who had surrounded the area where the civilian population was located, where Serbian forces are said to originally separate men and children from women, these are giving them orders to leave and some 500 Albanian males are arrested and sent to the village school where they persecute and beat them in their midst, including Ahmeti.

“...as they get to schools that all put in classrooms and keep them trapped for about 30 hours, under serious living conditions, denying them their basic rights for food, water, physical needs, and hence Serb forces, within the school had separated a class separate from other classes where they were keeping the detainees, in which there were several policemen along with the most defendants, Serdjan Lazovaq, who were originally forbidden by some of the Serb forces, then they took one of them from the other classes and sent him to the interrogation class and to be beaten among them, Z.B.R., they were physically tortured, and tortured by the drugs, and the drugs, and the drugs, and the drugs, which were sent to the police, as wells, as well as well as well as well as well as they were.

At that point, it is said that during the time spent on the device I, of this indictment, Serbian police and military forces, including the defendant Lazovic, participated in the expulsion of the civilian population from their homes, so that using systematic and widespread violence, they had first surrounded the village of Panorc and surrounding villages and then bombed them with heavy artillery, while in the end they had entered by infantry and had gone home and under the threat of weapons had forced residents to flee their homes, forcing them to flee in the direction of Albania.

Furthermore, they reportedly robbed all civilian homes and transport vehicles, and eventually they burned them all by causing them great material damage.

With these, Srdjan Lazovic is accused of co-ordinating, committing the criminal work “War Against Civil Population”, sanctioned with Article 142 concerning Article 22 of the Socialist Republic's Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia's Federal Law (now “) LP-RSFJ” as a law in effect at the time of the conduct of criminal acts. /Periscope