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Murder of Enver Hadri in Belgium, Court sentences perpetrators to life imprisonment
2025-01-29 18:34:18 / AKTUALITET
The Criminal Court in Brussels has announced this Wednesday again the life imprisonment sentence for Veselin Vukotic and Andrija Drashkovic, who are accused of the murder of Kosovar human rights activist Enver Hadri. The latter was killed in Brussels 35 years ago.
The court has found that Hadri was killed on the orders of the former Yugoslav Intelligence Service. This was announced by the Hadri family, which for many years has sought justice before the Belgian courts for the murder of Enver.
The guilt of Vukotic and Draskovic was confirmed by the jury on Tuesday, while the sentence was announced on Wednesday.
The jury made these decisions after hearing witnesses and reviewing evidence presented by the prosecution and defense attorneys.
Veselin Vukotic and Andrija Draskovic, along with Bozidar Spasic, were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016, but both parties appealed, so the trial was retried.
Bozidar Spasic, a senior intelligence official from Belgrade, has not appealed, meaning his life sentence remains in effect.
The convicts are in Serbia and the trial in Brussels was held in absentia.
Srdjan Cvijic, the author of a book on the murders of the Yugoslav State Security Service (DB) in Brussels, which will soon be published in Serbia, considers that for those who followed the trial for the murder of Enver Hadri in 2016, the repeated guilty verdict for Draskovic and Vukotic is not surprising.
"With this verdict, a final point is finally put on this political murder committed exactly 35 years ago. Apart from the case of the murder of Croatian immigrant Stjepan Đureković in Munich in 1983, the murder of Enver Hadri is one of the rare cases where it has been proven before the court that the Yugoslav UDBA killed its political opponents abroad," Cvijić said in a statement to Radio Free Europe.
Enver Hadri's daughter, Teuta Hadri, said that during the court session, the connection between the Serbian and Yugoslav secret services and the then criminal network in Belgrade was once again confirmed.
"Those who organized my father's murder were found guilty, based on their state documents," Teuta Hadri told reporters.
She considers the Belgian Court's decision a victory not only for the Hadri family, but also for all activists of that time who fought for human rights in Kosovo.
Enver Hadri was killed on February 15, 1990 in Brussels by gunfire from a car.
The investigations conducted, meanwhile, led to the conclusion that the murder was committed for political motives, organized by Yugoslav services and with logistical support from the Belgrade underground.
Enver Hadri was the chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Kosovo and a political émigré who collected documents to prove the Serbian regime's violence against Albanians in Kosovo.
The murder of Enver Hadri was considered one of the five most well-known political assassinations carried out by the Yugoslav secret service./ REL
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