Key legal question
Whether continued preventive detention was lawful despite the request for immediate release.
Extracted holding
Yes. The detention remained lawful because the risk of flight was sufficiently concrete and the petitioner offered no less intrusive measure to neutralize it.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the gravity of the offence alone was not decisive, but the expected custodial sentence, the applicant’s family ties to Kosovo, his financial problems, and the possibility that he would prefer to return to his country of origin made flight probable.