“I was leaving my kot which was located on rue Saint-Bernard in Saint-Gilles. I was waiting for the light to be green to cross,” said the witness, who was 20 years old at the time of the incident. “I saw a car stopped at a red light, then another car which passed it and came up to it. There was a noise and it caught my attention. It wasn’t a noise of bullet, it was an engine noise, I instinctively followed the second car which had restarted, to try to take the plate number. I then approached the car remaining at the red light. steering wheel had a bullet wound in “He was still breathing. I then went into a pastry shop on the street to ask for help because a man was dying,” the witness said.
“The image of the man in his car stays in my memory”
“I no longer remember how many people were on board, but in any case, more than one person,” he added. He declared, during his hearing at the time, that the car was a Volkswagen Golf or Polo brand, gray or light green, but he said on Friday that he no longer remembered these details. “The image of the man in his car stays in my memory, but I can no longer remember the plates, the marks, the colors…” he said.
This man is the only one among the six direct witnesses who were cited to have come forward. One of these witnesses has died, another lives abroad, and still others were absent for health reasons.
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The two forensic doctors were also not present during the hearing Friday. The president offered to read the most important parts of their report and let the jurors see the autopsy photos during their deliberations. The civil party’s lawyers opposed this, recalling that this report must be presented orally with supporting photos, to the extent that these documents show the reality of the assassination of Enver Hadri and the seriousness of his injury. The court will decide on this subject on Monday.
-Veselin Vukotic and Andrija Draskovic are being tried on opposition by the Brussels Assize Court. This had sentenced them in absentia in November 2016 to life imprisonment for the assassination of Enver Hadri. The jury established that they had acted on the orders of the Yugoslav secret services, more precisely on the instructions of chief inspector Bozidar Spacic. The latter was also sentenced by default to life imprisonment by the court.
On February 25, 1990 around 4:30 p.m., Enver Hadri, who was president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Kosovo, was behind the wheel of a car on rue Saint-Bernard in Saint-Gilles. As he stopped at the red light, another vehicle pulled up alongside him. The passenger window rolled down and shots were fired, according to several witnesses.
Enver Hadri, aged 48, was shot in the head. He died a few hours later at Saint-Pierre hospital in Brussels.
The trial will continue on Monday with the hearing of other witnesses.
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