Martens: 4 months after I sent 12 questions to him, The Hague informed me that they approved Thaci's answers

Journalist Martens, in his post on the social network yetX, stressed that the interview face to face with Thaci was not possible, and that the question would have to be put in writing.

Martens indicated that the questions he had filed in August 2025, which took four months until the Special announced it, that Thaci's answers had been adopted.

A face-to-face interview was no longer possible. The questions had to be put in writing, and the answers would be published only after the tribunal was examined, I was told. An interview without the possibility of the following critical questions is not really an interview. Still, it was worth a try. Perhaps the answers would still be interesting. So in August 2025, I presented 12 questions to The Hague. It took me four months until, on Christmas Eve 2025, the court informed me emailally that Thaci's answers had been adopted”, he wrote.

On the other hand, the journalist also indicated that the Special had declared Thaci's responses would be sent by mail, but only after a confidential document was signed.

The trial, they said, would send answers by mail, but only after signing a three-page confidential document specifying that the interview could only be published in the court's approved version, without cuts and without addition. To be able to judge if the answers were quite interesting, this condition had to be accepted. And so, in mid-January, three years after the initial interview offer, I received mail from The Hague: Thaci's response”, wrote Martens.

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