A Special Task Force to Investigate Organ Trafficking in Kosovo
(BRUSSELS2) The Swiss MP Dick Marty had denounced, in a vigorous report published last December, the inaction of European governments for not having further investigated the accusations of organ trafficking in Kosovo in which, according to him, he was involved. part of the Kosovar political class. He is about to be taken at his word. Eulex had already initiated a preliminary investigation in January. After the agreement of the ambassadors of the COPS - the Political and Security Committee - the European Union is currently completing the recruitment of a team of prosecutors and investigators who will be specially dedicated to verifying the allegations contained in this report. This task force should be operational in the summer (the counting of applications is in progress, it will be followed by interviews before the final choice).
A task force located in Brussels
The task force will be hierarchically attached to the EULEX Head of Mission, Xavier Bout de Marnhac, and will be headed by a high-level and experienced magistrate. But it will be located in Brussels. Officially for preserve its independence to avoid pressure and for obvious security reasons. It will thus be able to hear witnesses in an anonymity much easier to maintain than in Pristina. This will also allow it to extend the scope of its investigations not only to Kosovo but to other countries in the region (Serbia, Albania, etc.) or in Europe, subject of course to having the collaboration of the countries concerned. . It should not, on the other hand, take charge of cases already under investigation - such as the Medicus case.
Legally complex
The investigations carried out will not be easy from a political, police and ... legal point of view. The legal regime will depend on that of the date and place of the facts. This may be the code of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia, the specific Minuk laws - such as that of 2004 on human trafficking, the provisional criminal code applicable in Kosovo.
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