Turkey's Consulate strikers in Prizren sentenced to 5 years in prison

The spokeswoman of Prizren's Constitutional Court, Aferdita Kicaj, in a statement to AA, announces that today the Constitutional Court in Prizren, the Randa Crime Department, has declared the indictment of the 5 accused of committing the attack on the consulate of the Republic of Turkey in Prizren, who have been sentenced to one year in prison each, due to general risk and that they have been acquitted of endangering persons under international protection.

Kicaj reports that within this one-year prison sentence, the accused would also be counted as having spent time in detention and house arrest.

On November 28, 2016, on the day of the Flag Festival, a Molotov cocktail and concrete attacks on the Republic of Turkey's General Consulate in Prizren and then five people were arrested.

The State Prosecutor's Office had announced that the indictment against indictees I.S., Eg.S., B.S., Ed.S. and B.B., all from Prizren, has been filed because of how co-chairees committed criminal acts “The arrest of persons under international protection” and “Cause of total risk”.

“According to the indictment, the defendants are charged that on November 28, 2016, in the quality of co-chairees they have carried out a violent attack on official objects of a person under international protection, when such an act is likely to endanger the person or his freedom. Also, co-chairers' quality defendants have caused general danger to people's lives and property, as they have hunted Molotov cocktails and concrete cubes in the direction of the Turkish Consulate, with what was caused by fire in the building, and there has been great likelihood of endangering the freedom of Consul and other persons in that Consulate”, the State Prosecutor reported.