To prevent future Astrit Dehari cases, we must change the system by using it
Instead of heading toward collective efficacy, Kosovo is going in the opposite direction.
It seems that very often the main aim of the justice system is not to actually serve justice but to blame people and fill the cells with them.
At this point we do not know whether the CCTV footage was leaked to the media by unknown sources or was given to the media by the prosecution. In both cases responsibility arises and should be noted.
It is about adjusting to your surroundings and finding the right thing to do with the tools that you have at a particular moment in time, until you reach the point of adjusting your surroundings to what is right.
Furtuna Sheremeti
Furtuna Sheremeti is a criminologist and legal scholar specializing in state crime, state harms, transitional justice and international criminal law. She holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford and is completing her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Prishtina and serves as a legal consultant to Rexhep Selimi’s defense team before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.