Monster Case: Requests for Extradition of Demiri and Ismailovic Submitted

On Wednesday, Justice Minister Igor Filkov said he’d signed off on requests for extradition of Alil Demiri and Afrim Ismailovic, both sentenced to life in prison in the trial over the Monster case, which concerns the 2012 Smiljkovci killings.  The requests have already been submitted to the Kosovan Justice Ministry.

The previous extradition requests were sent in 2018. Requests had been submitted prior to that too. However, the persons are still in Kosovo. On 8 October 2021, Kosovo’s Justice Ministry notified that the Ismailovic request had been rejected. Regarding Demiri, there was no answer.

Answering a journalist’s question about the requests for extradition Kosovan Interior Minister Xhelal Svlecla, during a visit to Skopje, where he met counterpart Pance Toskovski, said journalists should ask his country’s Justice Ministry the question.