Scandalous: Serbian Extremist nominated Chairman of Foundation Court in Mitrovica

By majority of votes, Kabashi was appointed to this post under the Kosovo legal system, Konica.al reports.

This is part of the justice agreement between Pristina and Belgrade, where days ago 40 Serbian judges and 13 prosecutors are integrated into the Kosovo judicial system.

Under this agreement reached in February 2015, the chairman of the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica must be Serbian.

But who really is Nikola Kabashi?

The judge from Mitrovica, since the end of the war, has been part of Belgrade-funded parallel structures in the occupied part in northern Kosovo.

According to a research of the Konica.al portal, more than the tribunal, Kabashi had made a name with his close ties to extremist Serb groups operating north of the city of Mitrovica.

“We are ready, we are armed, we want to stay here”, Kabashi told Serbian media in February 2000, when Serb extremists forcibly expelled 12,000 Albanians from the northern part of Mitrovica.

He would continue to be a spokesman for Serbian nationalist groups at all times.

On March 17th 2008, a month after Kosovo's declaration of independence, Serb extremists clashed with UNMIK police and KFOR troops in northern Kosovo, wounding over 60 international officials.

Serbian Judge Nikola Kabashi was among the violent protesters, who did not even save firearms.

It is noteworthy that during these clashes a Ukrainian policeman died, while 27 Polish police officers, 14 Ukrainians, and 20 French soldiers were injured.

Despite this past, the Kosovo Judiciary Council entrusted Nikola Kabashi with the task of the most important judicial institution in the north, expected to rule the law and establish justice. /Conica.al/