The family of Enver Hadri is waiting for the court to confirm the life imprisonment for his killers

At the Criminal Court in Brussels, the trial of two suspects for the murder of the Kosovar activist Enver Hadri is continuing after they were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016. This trial is now taking place as two of the three convicted from 2016 have complained to decision, while the third convict did not appeal. Even this trial, like the one that was closed in 2016, is taking place in absentia as Serbia has not handed over the accused to Belgium.

At the hearing, evidence is being produced about the guilt of the perpetrators of the murder, Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drashković, whose lawyers have complained, while the third person sentenced to life imprisonment, Bozhidar Spasić, has not complained, but he is also free in Belgrade.

Teuta Hadri, the daughter of the murdered Enver Hadri, has not stopped her commitment to seek justice for years. She was 13 years old when Enver Hadri was killed in Brussels in 1990 by criminals commissioned by the intelligence service from Belgrade. Today she is exactly the age her father was when he was killed.

Teuta Hadri says that her family expects that the jury that was created for this trial will issue the same verdict and give the same sentence to the murderers, that is, the maximum sentence in Belgium is life imprisonment.

Teuta Hadri says that she sees this trial as particularly important, not only for her father and her family, but for all of Kosovo, as it is the only trial for a political murder of Albanian activists from Kosovo that has occurred in Western European countries.

Hadri has expressed gratitude for the help that the Government of Kosovo has decided to offer to the family to help engage in this judicial process.

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There were other suspects who participated in the execution of Enver Hadri 35 years ago. But two of them were later killed in a dispute between criminal groups. Serbia has never agreed to hand them over to Belgium to face charges.

In 2016, the Belgian court concluded that Enver Hadri was killed by underground organized crime groups used by the Yugoslav intelligence service and that this murder was ordered with political goals due to Hadri's activity in defense of human rights. the people of Albanians in Kosovo. Enver Hadri's file in the Belgian Court contains more than 3000 pages of testimony.

The jury of 12 members that was formed for this trial is listening to the testimonies of witnesses of the time, but also of international experts. It is expected that the process will be completed by the end of January.