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carrying Božidar Đurović and Ljubomir Zdravković in Alsani Durmishi Street in Prizren
(Kosovo). Đurović and Zdravković were ordered from the car, frisked, had their their identity
documents taken away and their hands with a rope. Kashnjeti, together with other members of the
KLA, allegedly struck the two men with rifle butts to the head and body, and took them at
gunpoint toward a yard where they kept them for several hours. After that, Kashnjeti drove the
two men, along with Miroslav Jovanović, whom unidentified KLA members had confined earlier
in the same yard, to Ortokol a suburb of Prizren, and ordered all three of them to go to Serbia,
taking away their car and everything that was in it.
The trial of Kashnjeti commenced on 13 September 2012. Over the course of the four trial days
held in 2012 eight witnesses were heard.
The accused denied having committed the offence and claimed to have never worn a KLA
uniform and to have never been a member of the KLA. He said he had been in a bookstore owned
by his friend Lir Bytyqi at the time of the event in question. As for a photograph published in a
newspaper allegedly showing him as one of the of KLA members escorting the injured parties, he
said he had seen it before but the soldier in the photograph was not him and he was a victim of
mistaken identity. He visited Serbia several times after seeing the photograph, and had never had
any problems until his arrest.
The court heard the injured parties Božidar Đurović and Ljubomir Zdravković and witnesses
Miroslav Jovanović, Nenad Dimitrijević, Milan Petrović, Lir Bytyqi, Kemal Baca and Zef
Kashnjeti.
The injured party Đurović did recognize the accused either during the investigation or the trial,
but stated that the persons who had arrested them were between 25 and 30 years old, whereas the
accused was 46 at the time of the event. Đurović was not able to describe what the accused
looked like at the time of the event, nor could he explain how he could possibly recognize a
person whom he was unable to describe.
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