26 minutes agoWar crimes hearings against indictees Pantic and Zaric off
Periskopi(4 months ago)
(4 months ago)At the Constitutional Court in Pristina, this Tuesday for the second consecutive day hearings against two war crimes indictees, Momir Pantic and Zarko Zaric, have been cancelled. The session, scheduled for today, was canceled for health reasons for accused Pantic. From the court's office, Donika Shala-Avdyli confirmed that by [...]
From the court's office of chairman, Donika Shala-Avdyli confirmed that from the Duz Supreme Security Prison, health and Pantic accused status continues to be the same, for this reason he cannot be present in the trial either today, reports the “Betim for Justice”.
The March 16th 2026 session has been cancelled for the same reasons.
According to the indictment, filed on September 1st 2024 by the Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo (PSRK), former chief of police station in Istog, Momir Pantic and former police officer Zarko Zaric, are charged that, at co-ordination, the criminal work has been carried out “the crime crime crime of the war against the civilian population”.
According to the indictment, which has secured the “Justice Trust”, on May 19, 1999, in the village of Dubrava, exactly in the Dubrava prison after the NATO bombings, where, in turn, three Albanian prisoners had been killed, Pantiq as head of the police station along with Serb police forces had gone to take control of the situation and after the shelling of the guards have even entered the detention rooms and exercised systematic violence, beating them cruelly and inhumanly, only to be an Albanian.
The indictment reportedly has continued on 21 May, where 18 Albanian prisoners and dozens of others injured remained dead. While the day after the morning, the guards, the prisoners, armed Serbs along with police forces and Special Units who were under the command of the Police Station in Istog, have initially assembled Albanian prisoners in the field of sports, and later, reportedly in the indictment began firing guns of various kinds, while bombs were fired from behind the prison wall in the direction of Albanian prisoners.
Always, referring to the indictment, Serbian police forces at the Police Station in Istog, under Pantic's leadership, also kidnapped an Albanian civilian under the nickname “A1”, which they sexually violated. Besides the victim “A1”, the indictment describes the violation of another victim- “B1”. The two defendants are also charged with killing several families in the Istog municipality.
