A man accused of murdering a Swiss school teacher will be extradited back to Switzerland, the justice ministry confirmed on Thursday.
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Ded Gecaj is accused of killing his daughter’s teacher at a St Gallen school in 1999. Afterwards he fled to his homeland of Kosovo, where he was re-arrested on Monday.
He confessed to the crime and in 2000 a court in Kosovo sentenced him to four years in prison for manslaughter. Two years later he was freed and went into hiding.
The Swiss authorities argue the sentence was too lenient.
They want to bring Gecaj to court to face murder charges as well as accusations of sexual abuse against his daughter.
In August 2009 Kosovo’s highest court ruled that Gecaj was eligible for extradition but the Kosovo government had to approve it.
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Serbian court hands down four year sentence to killer of Swiss teacher
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The Swiss embassy in Belgrade announced on Friday that Ded Gecaj had been sentenced in his absence to four years by a Serbian court last December. The court ruled that Gecaj could only be held partially culpable for the killing of Paul Spirig, on the basis of several psychiatric evaluations. Gecaj shot his daughter’s teacher…
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A court in Saint Gallen had reduced an earlier two-year sentence, and freed Gecaj on the basis of time already served. She was released on Thursday, and re-arrested pending her deportation to her native Kosovo on Friday. Her husband, Ded Gecaj, has admitted having stabbed to death his daughter’s schoolteacher, Paul Spirig, in January 1999.…
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A Yugoslav man who admitted killing his daughter’s teacher in Sankt Gallen more than a year ago, is finally facing justice in a Serbian court. Although the trial of Ded Gecaj is already underway, it was first reported in the Swiss press on Sunday. According to the SonntagsZeitung, Gecaj is standing trial accused of murdering…
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In the capital Pristina, as in the rest of the province, there is much evidence of the close relations between Kosovo and Switzerland. (Photos: Luigi Jorio)
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