
The Special Court has rejected Fran Marashi's request to exit the 41 Bis regime.
According to the decision of the panel headed by Judge Erjon Bani, Marash's request was declared inadmissible due to his failure to appear at the hearing. As a result, he will remain under the special regime for the exercise of rights, according to the order of the Minister of Justice No. 620, dated 13.12.2024.
The Criminal Court of Kosovo has sentenced Fran Marashi, one of the gang members accused of carrying out the 1997 Vajgurore Bridge massacre, in which five police officers were killed, to life in prison. The police vehicle was attacked with heavy weapons, including an anti-tank gun, in what is considered one of the most serious incidents to have occurred 28 years ago.
The trial of Fran Marashi took place at the GJKKO, which took over the retrial of one of the most serious events that occurred in the disastrous year of 1997.
After the retrial of the case, prosecutor Alfred Shehu in his final conclusions requested life imprisonment for Fran Marashi.
For this event, the courts have previously handed down 3 life sentences.
Fran Marashi, sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the massacre, was retried at the GJKKO after the Supreme Court decided to return the case to the first instance.
Marashi was extradited from Italy in 2007, while in 2009 he attempted to escape from Burrel prison together with Preng Lleshi, another member of the Ura Vajgurore gang, to draw attention to the fact that the process against him should be reopened.
In December 2024, Fran Marashi was placed in the "41-Bis" regime, in the high-security Institution for the Execution of Criminal Decisions in Peqin for a period of one year.
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