This Friday, the court session will be held for the former Minister of Defense, Fatmir Mediu, for the Gerdec explosion.
In the last session, the lawyers of the former minister asked to waive the summary trial, but the court stated that only the defendant has the right to make this request. The lawyers have announced that in the ordinary trial they will ask for new expertise on the causes of the explosion, while they will also question witnesses who were not questioned earlier, as well as the persons against whom the investigation has been completed.
According to the lawyers, there are doubts that the explosion was not an accident and that someone started a deliberate fire inside the weapons dismantling depot. Mediu is accused of abuse of duty and abuse of duty committed in cooperation with the military chain of command.
There are doubts that the former government minister Berisha, in cooperation with other officials of the Ministry of Defense as well as other persons, has issued sub-legal acts contrary to the law. The explosion of March 15, 2008 at the ammunition dismantling factory in Gerdec caused 26 deaths/. abcnews.al
