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Monster Case Verdict: 4 of 5 Defendants Found Guilty, Given Prison Sentences
Judge Ognen Stavrev from the Skopje Criminal Court announced at a hearing on Tuesday the verdict for the Monster case. According to the verdict, defendants Alil Demiri, Afrim Ismailovic and Agim Ismailovic were sentenced to life in prison, Haki Aziri is sentenced to 9 years in prison, Fejzi Aziri is sentenced to 15 years in prison, after all of them were found guilty of the murder of 4 boys aged between 19 and 21 and a 45-year-old fisherman at the Smilkovci Lake near Skopje back in the spring of 2012, which the Court qualified as act of terrorism. The fifth defendant in this case, Sami Luta, was cleared of all charges after the Court concluded that there is not enough evidence against him in this case. In a previous trial, all 5 defendants were found guilty of terrorism and were given prison sentences, but in 2017 the Supreme Court of Macedonia overturned the verdict and restarted the entire trial, after wh
Ethnic Albanians Convicted Of Terrorism In Macedonian Murder Retrial
February 23, 2021 15:07 GMT
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A court in North Macedonia has found five ethnic Albanians guilty of terrorism in the retrial of a nine-year-old quintuple murder case that sent shock waves across the country and prompted speculation of political meddling.
Agim Ismailovic, Afrim Ismailovic, and Alil Demiri were sentenced to life in prison for the killing of five young ethnic Macedonians in April 2012, while two other defendants, Fejzi Aziri and Haki Aziri, were sentenced to 15 and nine years in prison, respectively, after they were found guilty of aiding the others in committing the murders.