Kosovo Police were attacked within four months seven times

Police yesterday through an announcement revealed that the police car was hit twice by a truck suspected of having smuggled goods.

Police officials have also been forced to use the official weapon, since the truck driver was endangering other traffic participants.

In an effort to stop it, the truck driver has hit the police car for the second time, causing injuries to police officials and causing considerable material damage. Viewing the high risk for the lives of police officials as well as other participants in traffic, police officials have undertaken necessary and proportional actions with the aim of stopping the risk using the official” weapon, police report said.

And after that, Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Interior Affairs Minister Jelal Svecla has reacted.

Kurt waited in the afternoon hours for wounded cops. The prime minister has said the government is committed to fighting organised crime, until it has addressed complaints about justice institutions, in this case the Prosecutor's Office, which freed one of the suspects in the case.

Our “Police every day demonstrate determination and skill to ensure legitimacy in the entire territory of the Republic. While professional police work has managed to bring suspected persons to justice, the latter, in this case the Prosecutorate, releases one suspect in regular procedure, according to police claims”, Kurti said.

MPB Minister Xhelal Svecla said police members have performed the operation against smuggling best.

He has added that police officials have asked the Special Prosecutor to take the event into investigation, but the prosecution did not respond positively.

“Meanwhile, the prosecutor-in-chief immediately released one of the attacking police smugglers. So I'm still expressing my deep conviction. The reluctance to act on the justice organs is automatically translated into the empowerment of criminals and increased confidence in them”, Svechla wrote.

Regarding the injuries of five police officials, the Kosovo Police Union has also reacted.

They, through a reaction sent to the media, have strongly condemned the attack on members of police, until they have demanded that justice bodies act according to the law against perpetrators of criminal acts.

By failing to comply with the orders of police officials to stop, a truck has hit the police car, where five police officials have suffered injuries and caused material damage. Police officials want rapid recovery, while law enforcement requires that they act according to the law against the perpetrators of such criminal acts”, it is further said.

The Foundation Prosecutor in Mitrovica ) has requested from the Constitutional Court in Mitrovica the detention assignment for suspect A.D., due to alleged criminal acts “attempted murder “, unauthorized cross-border crossing”, as well as “Calamination of goods<5>.

Under the prosecution's request handed down to the court, there is doubt that the suspect A.D., on July 16th 2022, in the village of Lazyn of the Leposaviqi municipality, has voluntarily and knowingly taken actions that have endangered the lives of four entity police officials. NJXNSH of the Border Police Directorate.

We remember that this is not the only attack on police members in the country's north.

No further than three months ago, Kosovo Police members in the north faced successive attacks. Of April 13th-26, they were attacked six times in a row.

Unknown people fired on police vehicles with automatic weapons, AK 47 hand grenades. And metal iris were placed on the streets and other hard tools. Human injuries were not limited to material harm.

Regarding these attacks, authorities in Kosovo said they are conducting intensive investigations, but it is still not known whether there are persons arrested or suspects.