2 minutes agoHere's what the prosecution wants for officers arrested for Ivanovic's murder case.
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Mitrovica's prosecution has warned that today it will hand over to the Court the request for detention for two officers arrested yesterday as suspected of misusing evidence in Ivanovic case. Prosecutor Nyazi told Rhaja. KALLXO.com that the request will be submitted today during the day, while it has not provided further details about the flow [...]
Mitrovica's prosecution has warned that today it will hand over to the Court the request for detention for two officers arrested yesterday as suspected of misusing evidence in Ivanovic case.
Prosecutor Nyazi told Rhaja. KALLXO.com that the request will be submitted today during the day, while there are no further details of the course of the investigation so far.
Two Kosovo police officers, D.M. (1970) and Z.M (1970) were arrested during yesterday under the suspicion that they had not taken care of carefully guarding the site of the event a few minutes after Oliver Ivanovic's murder.
Prosecutor Ayazi Rexha, who is investigating the case, has confirmed that the arrest of two police officers relates to the way the scene was preserved after the incident.
“They have been in charge of guarding the scene and have not done their task properly”, Rexha told KALLXO.com.
He has clarified that they are investigating the consequences of police actions.
News of the arrests of two station police officials in northern Mitrovica revealed the Police Inspectorate.
According to the Inspectorate communiqué, these officials were arrested under suspicion of evidence manipulation.
The inspector announced that in addition to the arrests, he raided two locations in northern Mitrovica at the order of the prosecutor and court.
In the afternoon, IPK and KP investigators have implemented the ordinance issued by the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica and were raided by two locations in North Mitrovica”, said last night's communiqué.
“During the raids, a TT-type gun has been seized, as well as two rounds of .762 mm calibration rounds that will serve for further criminal procedure”.
The detainees have been assigned a 48-hour police ban.
Kosovo Serb politician and Civic Initiative Chairman “Leire, Democracy, Justice” Oliver Ivanovic was killed in northern Mitrovica on 16 January.
He was buried a day later in Belgrade.
His murder has been widely condemned by EU, Serbian and Kosovo officials.
He was seen as a moderate politician in Kosovo supporting co-existence between the Serb minority and the Albanian majority.
However, he was being retriald for ordering the 1999 murder of Kosovo Albanians during the Kosovo war for independence. He pleaded innocent.
Serbia has called for involvement in Ivanovic's assassination investigation, while the two states are indirectly exchanging information on this murder.
