The trial of Hisni Ibishi and Bujar Ibishi, father and son, accused of murdering their cousin, Ismet Ibishi, on February 12, 2025, at a café in Adem Jashari Square in Skenderaj, is under way at the Basic Court in Mitrovica.
At the end of the hearing, the judicial panel led by Judge Izet Gërguri decided not to accept the defense request of Hisni Ibishi for a supplementary psychiatric evaluation. However, the court ordered that the head of the team of experts who prepared the evaluation be summoned to provide additional clarifications. On the other hand, the court approved the request of Bujar Ibishi’s defense that he undergo a psychiatric evaluation by the Kosovo Institute of Forensic Psychiatry.
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“The proposal of the defense counsel for defendant Hisni Ibishi, Kada Bunjaku-Përçuku, for the IFPK to be ordered to supplement the psychiatric evaluation for defendant Hisni Ibishi is rejected. Meanwhile, the proposal to summon the head of the team of experts who carried out the evaluation of defendant Hisni Ibishi, so that he may provide the necessary clarifications in line with the parties’ requests, is approved. The proposal of the defense counsel for defendant Bujar Ibishi, lawyer Naim Rudari, for a psychiatric evaluation to be carried out on defendant Bujar Ibishi is approved. By a separate order, the court will instruct the IFPK to carry out this evaluation and determine the tasks,” said presiding judge Gërguri.
Hisni Ibishi’s defense lawyer, Kada Bunjaku-Përçuku, challenged the content of the evaluation by the Kosovo Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, saying it did not address whether her client had acted in a state of severe mental shock.
“Yes, I have remarks regarding the evaluation of the Kosovo Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, because at the previous hearing I proposed that this direct psychiatric examination be conducted on my client, with the aim of establishing the circumstances of whether my client carried out the shooting with a weapon in a state of severe mental shock or not. I do not have the court’s separate ruling by which the experts were assigned their specific duties, but based on the written evaluation and the final conclusion they provided, it is evident that they did not examine or give an opinion on this circumstance, which is precisely why the evaluation was proposed,” said Përçuku.
Meanwhile, Bujar Ibishi’s lawyer, Naim Rudari, requested that his client undergo a psychiatric evaluation, referring to medical reports which, according to him, point to emotional problems and personality disorders.
“As for the health report for detainee Bujar Ibishi, we received it on May 22, 2026, via email and, despite the fact that the report states that the patient’s medical file is attached, we received only the two-page health report. From the content of this report, it is evident that detainee Bujar Ibishi was treated at the detention center and monitored for the diagnoses of ‘personality disorder with schizoid traits’ and ‘borderline personality disorder.’ Among other things, the report describes that the patient manifested increased emotional burden, anxiety, emotional lability, as well as the presence of suicidal ideation,” Rudari said.
These requests were opposed by prosecutor Sahit Tmava, who said that accepting them would only delay the judicial process.
“We have the experts’ decision and findings regarding the mental health condition of defendant Hisni Ibishi, and for this reason I oppose the proposal of Hisni’s defense counsel. As for the proposal of the defense of defendant Bujar Ibishi, in the latest hearings there has been no documentation whatsoever concerning defendant Bujar Ibishi, from the time the criminal offense was committed up to these hearings, showing that he suffers from any psychiatric disorder, either before or after the commission of the criminal offense. Therefore, I also oppose the proposal of Bujar’s defense because, in one respect, it is only delaying the proceedings,” Tmava said.
The representative of the injured party, Fisnik Sogojeva, also opposed the requests for additional evaluations, stressing that the existing evaluation shows that Hisni Ibishi was not in a state of shock at the time of the incident.
“We oppose it because from the evaluation prepared by three experts, dated 06.07.2025, on the last page, the penultimate point, the experts clarified that ‘as regards the critical day, the ability to judge the act, as well as the ability to control one’s actions and the consequences of one’s actions or omissions, was not affected.’ So, it was clarified that at the time of undertaking the act, he was not in a state of shock of any kind and, moreover, in the direct examination in the expert report it is clarified that even now he feels no remorse.” As for Bujar Ibishi, from the minutes of the previous hearing, the proposal of his defense was that his health condition at the detention center be examined, and not any possible examination related to the critical day. Moreover, from the report and evidence submitted on 22.05.2026 by the Prison Health Department, it is sufficiently clarified and understood from that evidence that he did not display any circumstance that could suggest that on the critical day he was affected in such a way as not to be aware of the action he undertook,” said Sogojeva.
According to the prosecution, Hisni and Bujar Ibishi are suspected that on February 12, 2025, in a venue in Adem Jashari Square in Skenderaj, “aware of their actions and intentionally deprived Ismet Ibishi I.I. of life, in that while the victim was drinking coffee in the venue, the defendants, as soon as they entered, pulled out their weapons and fired in his direction, with the shots proving fatal.”
The next hearing has been scheduled for September 3, 2026, starting at 09:00.
