The decision of the Supreme Court for Dritan Dajti is clarified: the appeal erred by favoring the reduction of the sentence

The Supreme Court has announced the life imprisonment sentence of Dritan Dajti, who was accused by the Serious Crimes Prosecution of murdering 5 people in Durrës, among them 4 employees of the operational group of the State Police, Fatos Xhani , Sajmir Duçkollari, Altin Dizdari and Kastriot Feskaj, this event happened on August 7, 2009.

In a 74-page decision, the criminal panel of this court, Ilir Panda, Artur Kalaja and Sandër Simoni, argued that the Court of Appeal for Serious Crimes acted incorrectly in resolving the legal situation, favoring Dritan Dajti, for the removal of the prison sentence life and his sentence of 25 years in prison.

According to the Supreme Court, the favor in the Appeal came by accepting Dajti's request for a shortened trial, reducing the sentence to 1/3.

The three judges of the Supreme Court say that decision No. 13 of February 8, 2019, which sentenced Dajti to 25 years in prison for the murder of 4 policemen, forgery of documents and possession of weapons without a permit, was taken in violation of Article 403 of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as the unifying decision of the United Colleges of dated January 29, 2003.

Starting from this legal basis, the Supreme Court found reason to overturn the decision of the three judges of the Appeal for Serious Crimes, Aleks Nikolli, Petrit Aliaj and Skënder Damini, who removed Dajti's life sentence and gave him the sentence of 25 years imprisonment.

The Supreme Court has considered that the Court of Appeal for Serious Crimes has upheld the decision of the court of first instance for serious crimes, for all dispositions except the intermediate decision for not accepting the summary judgment and granting the legal benefit for the reduction of punishment.

The college appreciates that although this disposition for the part that upholds the decision of the first instance is correct, since there was no recourse for this part and the Supreme Court overturned the decision of the court of appeal to accept the summary trial, the court's decision-making of the first degree for serious crimes should also be left in force for this part.

Therefore, based on these circumstances, it has been decided to overturn the decision of the Appeal, leaving in force the decision of the Court of First Instance for Serious Crimes taken on July 23, 2014, sentencing Dritan Dajti to life imprisonment.

The removal of the sentence of 25 years of imprisonment and Dajti's sentence of life imprisonment was made on June 11, 2024. Meanwhile, on July 4, 2024, Dritan Dajti had to leave his cell, where he is serving his sentence in the high security prison in Peqin.

This change of positions on the amount of punishment has brought dissatisfaction to Dritan Dajti, who has already started a wave of requests in the Court of Elbasan, demanding that this court extinguish the serving of the sentence with 25 years of imprisonment, claiming that the decision of the Supreme Court is not executable.