BiH's prosecution: We are co-operating with Kosovo institutions to whiteen Banjska attack investigations

Bosnia and Herzegovina's prosecution is closely co-operating with Kosovo institutions to clarify investigations into the Banjska attack.

So it says in an answer that this prosecutor has sent the Time.

Bosnia's “Procurory has accepted the request for mutual assistance from Kosovo authorities. The Bosniak Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police Department in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina will carry out the necessary activities to determine all available details about the origin of weapons seized”, has been disclosed by the Bosnian Prosecutor.

“From January 2023 to 24 September [Millan Radoic] has bought weapons, ammunition and explosive devices with huge destructive powers from Tuzla, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.

This was Belgrade's version of the High Public Prosecutor for weapons that were used in the terrorist attack on Zvecan Banjsk, which took place against the Kosovo Police on 24 September, where slain Sergeant Africa Bulnjak remained.

Kosovo Police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have consistently stated that the weapons of the terrorist group that were seized in Banjsk and the surrounding area are produced in Serbia, and the year of producing some of them (last years, even in 2023) suggests that the group has been supplied by Serbia's institutions.

The ammunition used by members of the armed group during the conflict in Banjska was produced at the Serbian factory in Belom in 2022, and mortar and mortar mines were repaired at state institutions in 2018 and 2021, according to research by Serbia's Balkan Research Network. Milan Radoic has recently declared before the prosecutor that he has received weapons and explosives in Tuzla, which Bosnia and Herzegovina denies.

“There are no special tools and weapons that cannot be found anywhere”, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq said.

And this “should be” and must be somewhere.

BIRN, based on photographs and videos of weapons published by Kosovo police, in which the signs are clearly visible, and with the help of gun experts, has come to the conclusion that part of the weapons seized by the Radojsic group has passed through the Serbian state system at a moment in the previous five years.

Among the weapons seized are the 7.62x39m calibre bullets for automatic rifles produced at the Belom factory in Uziqi in 2022.

Mortarish mines and M-80 mortars were repaired in 2018 and 2021 at the Institute of Technical Regimes in Kragujevac, while the M93 automatic grenade launcher was at a moment at Cacak Institute of Technical Ried, according to BIRN.

Among the weapons seized is also one of the 1990s, but bullets produced in 2022 can hardly be found on the black market. With the fact that Serbia has a good history of weapons, the investigation into the origin of everything confiscated should not be a problem if done. They say there are three ways in which the weapon could have reached Banjska. One is that those weapons were stolen from military warehouses, remote institutes, the second solution is that some of these weapons were sold to some private businessmen, and that they later gave or sold those weapons to Radojichiqi's group, and the third option is that the state gave weapons to Radojicicki in one way or another.

And yet the question of how none of the competent security services in Belgrade knew anything about the Banjska case.

If those people didn't know, the next day they should have all been replaced, deported, prosecuted, I don't think they knew, nor did strangers know. Because everyone knew something was going to happen there, now everyone kept quiet, everybody says the same thing, we're waiting for the investigation.

BIRN's questions if there is something missing from the weapons and whether and who traded them have not yet received answers from the relevant ministries. At the moment, there is no official reaction that the Radojici group has used new bullets and mines renovated by Serbia.