Five murders in one week in Kosovo, alarm for illegal weapons

In this case, attention has been turned to the disturbing crime rate and easy access to illegal weapons.

Experts stress that the murder sentences in Kosovo are among the most severe in the region and Europe.

They say that among the main causes of murder are the presence of illegal weapons in the hands of citizens who account for about 300 thousand, and socioeconomic factors.

Lawyer Skender Musa in an interview for Online Economy estimates that the sentences pronounced for cases of killings in Kosovo are the most serious compared to the region.

“No, in a criminal and judicial sense, are not easy penalties, even more severe sentences than in the European Union and in the region. Because for a serious murder, the sentences are usually pronounced for 15 years, 25 years, 30 years, 35 years, and so on, to a life sentence. At the same time for common killings, penalties, even though it is envisioned as beginning for five years, in Kosovo it is very indisputable to pronounce sentences for common killings under 15 years or 20 years. So the sentences are extremely severe. However, the factors that influence should not only be viewed by the criminal aspect, because criminal procedures or institutions such as prosecution, court and police investigating the killings usually deal with the fallout, he said.

Musa considered the presence and loose security of weapons in Kosovo disturbing.

The punishments also have that part of the educational character because we consider the weight of the penalty when they pronounce criminal sanctions, we consider the preventative effect on other potential persons that they do not commit criminal acts in the future. More, though, is involved in sociological, educational, tradition, and so forth. Meanwhile, as the main factor affecting the penal-juridical aspect of murder and attempted murder, it is the large number of weapons, which in Kosovo almost anyone who wants to be equipped with some kind of weapon, it is easily coming to the weapon. And that's disturbing because they're ending up with murder. The characteristic of the serious murders that are in Kosovo is that the murder is committed for extremely unclear inexplicating, usually carried out by the unemployed, there are no plannings like in other countries (a year, six months, three months and so forth) to commit a murder. However, homicides usually occur very quickly, and this phenomenon can't rightly be clarified, this is more of a sociologist character”, he says.

The lawyer also called for the government to act on strategic plans for awareness of citizens.

This is a “This aside from punishment, the state has to take something on issue of possession without permission. A state and national strategy for citizen consciousness should be built, for citizens in general not to bear arms, not to mark with weapons, not to use weapons. And there must be a particular campaign or strategy that the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Justice think will have to be made so that people can be informed of the consequences of killing a person. Both for the damaged party who loses his life and his family and for the person who is the chief criminal, because the consequences of the criminal offense are enormous because the sentences are very severe. On the other hand, the consequences associated with the family, beginning with the risk of revenge, and then economic destruction, loss of all areas of life, such as child education, and all that negatively affect, and in fact, destroy two families by a murder. The state here needs to take measures and find forms of how to be affected and not expected only from the criminal aspect, because prisons can be filled with people, but criminal rights do not educate people”, Musa added.

While former Kosovo Agency for Intelligence former Inspector(AKI), Burim Ramadani for Online Economy singles out the presence of illegal weapons and does not exclude socio-economic factors in the impact of the killings.

It seems that unfortunately there are several factors that affect the large number of murders and the number one factor absolutely is the large presence of weapons in the hands of citizens. A lot of them illegal weapons. So we haven't seen a particular national programme that would deal with the reduction or reduction of illegal weapons in the hands of citizens. But also, other factors may be social or economic issues, in which Kosovo citizens remain under pressure from socio-economic circumstances”, he said.

Ramadani emphasises that about 300 thousand illegal weapons are found in Kosovo citizens, until he invited the government for companies of measures.

“There have been some reports mostly of U The NDP, which has had illegal weapons measurements and has been constantly talking about an estimated 300 thousand illegal small arms in the hands of citizens. But to update these data are institutions that would have to be much more agial in their work. First of all, it is imperative that the Government of Kosovo, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have a programme that would include many dictatorships of society, including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economy and others, municipalities absolutely, in order to remove the large number of illegal weapons in Kosovo. Including rewarding or other programs that are given or distributed when citizens return illegal weapons. Meanwhile, the part of shaping weapons in the hands of citizens is another program. So, there is a national approach of the Government of Kosovo to remove the illegal weapons of Kosovo citizens”, Ramadani has added.

At the same time, sociologist Bekim Selisha, for Online Economics listed educational factors starting in elementary schools.

And we've seen it beginning with this process is that even in high or elementary schools, social subjects or sociologists are completely analyzed or concrete iron, as a result of this dealing with social phenomena. So we, even from elementary school to high school, have given a lot of importance to scientific subjects, while we're not in a good financial position that grew up in that way that we only invested in science and society to completely forget.

In even those institutions for social welfare - social or sociologists - very few are committed to at least early marriages or marriages - people need to consult how marriage should be treated or how a marriage should develop. Then we have the next process, well the property problems were addressed. We can't only with legal or legal acts to address property phenomena, that they are quite problematic in Kosovo. We are coming a little bit longer to address them after a more serious approach in this regard, that it's not quite an easy financial aspect now to put aside, that we are seeing the problems where they are”, he said.

The paper says the government should undertake reforms to deal with social phenomena, even citing cases of financing.

The state hands should be more present in relation to the citizens of this country. That's why the state owes it to the citizen to treat social phenomena and deal with its citizens. It is not to deal with its citizens except during election periods, or during any act, any solemn day, or special day, but it takes all the time most important. So we also have the problem of leaving Kosovo, which no one has ever dealt with migration, has dealt with financial problems. Or as a country, we have an opportunity to treat them, that is, to give priority to young couples in employment in state institutions or elsewhere. There is no such thing as our priority. You have a high priority, no matter what your qualifications, whether you have connections, or whether you're familiar, you even walk first. This is a very bad phenomenon that is very present among us. It's also in other countries, but it's very present to us, which gives it space that new generations, which are very good professionally, leave Kosovo. They don't wait ten years when they get a chance after a job, they're leaving their country and they find themselves professionally elsewhere and they're very successful. This remains as a phenomenon to be treated a little better”, he said.

Sociologist argues that the nature in Kosovo is on the decline and that only one murder has great influence in the country.

And we're also very few by night, the mortgage is its trend, and the killing... and the killing... is a lot going on in us, that we have to consider, that is, natural morality, murder or natural history. Natural nature in us is in very rapid decline, namely, mortality is also its age trend, but the killings are an increasing number that the state has done to address social phenomena a little more seriously”, the Selista noted.

Five people killed are the balance of a serious week of crime in Kosovo. Last week, which started with a murder in downtown Gjakova, went on with another in Cline and ended with an even more serious murder in a Podujevo village where three people lost their lives, including the author who allegedly shot himself after the crime.

Three people died, including the author, in a serious murder at Mayanc in Podujevo.

A 31-year-old with the initials A.G. It is suspected that after killing I.B. (year, 45) he died at the scene of the incident, he also injured her uncle's wife, M.G. (73-year-old) who also died at KKUK, where she was sent for medical treatment.

The author himself, who after shooting at the two victims, allegedly shot himself, was unable to cope. She also died at the KKUK Emergency Centre.