Appeal confirms former Prime Minister Erden Attic's sentence for cutting off transmission of the Assembly hearing in RTK

“REFUZED as being unconfirmed on behalf of accused Erden Attic's defender, av. Jevdet H. Shala, while the Constitutional Court Act in Pristina, dates 20.11.2024 V TRUE”, says Apel's decision, reports the “Justice Act”.

The Appeals' decision, compiled on May 20th 2026, was made by the Judge's college committee consisting of Mehmet Ndekaj -- college chairman Ferit Osmani and Ali Kutlovovci.

The Constitutional Court in Pristina, through the November 20th 2024 verdict, for criminal work “Investigation, damage or removal of public installations”, had sentenced Attici to 6 months in prison on bail, which the sentence would not be executed unless the same in the 1 year's vertique was performed by another criminal act.

According to Apel's decision, the complaint against the Constitutional Law has submitted Attic's protector, lawyer Dzevdet Shala, due to essential violations of criminal procedure provisions, violation of the Criminal Law, error and incomplete confirmation of the actual situation, and the decision on criminal sanctions, seizures and costs of criminal procedure, proposing that the case be turned into retrial and re-restitution.

The Appeal's prosecution on the other side through the parachute has proposed that attorney Shala's complaint be rejected as unfounded, while the foundation decision is confirmed.

According to Appeals, the complaint court did not contain substantial violations of the penal procedure's provisions, as well as other violations of the procedure, which this Court observes every time according to official duty, and which would condition its annulment.

In the decision, Apel points out that the foundation decision is clear, concrete, and describes the actual situation that has been proven.

The second rate estimates that the first rate has assessed the evidence in accordance with the relevant legal provisions, fully presenting which facts and why it takes them as proven or untested.

Furthermore, the ruling says that the first degree has given due reasons above all the crucial facts of this criminal case, which both rights approve of the Court and do not see the need to re-appreciate.

Apel has stressed that all the evidence collected has been confirmed and that there is no confusion left in the direction of criminal activity “Inspection, damage, or removal of public installation”.

Always under the verdict, from all evidence administered by the court in the first degree, the latter rightly found that in the actions of the accused there are all objective features and subjects of criminal work “Inspection, damage, or removal of public installation”.

The Appeals College did not find that there is grounds for the pronunciation of a milder sentence, while the defendant's claims regarding the seizure of the bag and other means are groundless after they have been used and are means by which the accused has committed criminal work as in the conviction of the complaint.

The first degree “when determining the type and measuring of sentence took into account the circumstances in the sense of Article 73 and 74 of KPRK, so as an extenuating circumstance received the fact that the accused for the first time has conflicted with the law, is a family man, the court took into account his behaviour after carrying out his criminal act, his conduct in court, while the difficult circumstances did not find<1>, it is said in Apel's decision.

We remember that Attic at the initial session on September 16, 2021 was not declared about guilt.

“I am secular in this field, I will quietly defend”, Attic had declared.

According to Pristina Constitutional Prosecutor's Act set up on October 25, 2017, Erden Attic was charged with being charged on September 1, 2016, at 11:15, on the “road. U n KH” in Pristina, near the entrance of the Kosovo Assembly, has deliberately decoupled the cable from the converter that was placed in a metal box of the television transmission optic network. It reportedly has stopped broadcasting the Parliamentary House of the Republic of Kosovo in RTK.

With these, Attic was accused of committing criminal work “Distraction, damage or removal of public installations” from Article 366, paragraph 1 of KPRK, whose chief is sentenced to prison for up to five years.