The Advocate Who Intimidates: Flutura Kusari’s War on Prosecutors
By naming prosecutors and silencing critics, Flutura Kusari of ECPMF doesn’t fight for press freedom, she tramples it under ego, ambition, and the shadow of the Devolli empire.
In the fragile democracy of Kosovo, where the law still fights to breathe above the suffocating weight of oligarchs, Flutura Kusari presents herself as a defender of justice and press freedom1. Yet her repeated actions expose not a guardian of rights but an operator willing to submit the very idea of rule of law to her own will, using networks of power and influence tied to one of the most entrenched oligarchies in the Balkans.
The case against citizen Mentor Llugaliu, dismissed first by the Basic Prosecution in Prishtina and again by the Appeal, ought to have been closed, a simple matter of law correctly applied. Both prosecutorial levels found no crime in his social media criticisms. The legal definition of harassment was not met. But for Kusari, the law itself became secondary. The decision was not a legal setback; it was an affront to her authority. In her public statement of 31 July2, she all but declared war on Kosovo’s judiciary, openly shaming the prosecutors by name: Kushtrim Ze…
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