One killed, seven arrested and one policeman wounded by the shootout, all that happened yesterday in action against gold robbers in Suhareka

A policeman was injured during the shootout. Police are also searching for another person involved.

The event, which began Thursday's noon in Pristina's “Arberia”, lasted several hours.

Police have announced that after intensive investigations and collection of evidence in Pristina, Fushe Kosovo and Caralev police operation, which has involved control in seven different locations, with the aim of identifying and arresting suspected persons.

During the action, there was the shootout of suspected persons with the police.

“During the development of the police operation, a suspect has fired gunfire towards police officials, directly risking their lives, by which the police official has been wounded. Police officials in self-defense have been forced to use proportional force, able to neutralise one suspect, while four other suspects have been arrested. So far the number of those arrested has gone to seven persons, one neutralised and another still found in police search”, police announced during yesterday.

Police said suspected persons have a criminal record with allegations of involvement in criminal acts, such as murder, robbery, heavy theft, assault, deportation, bodily injury, obligation, illegal possession, etc.

Regarding the November 22nd robbery in a jewelry store in Suhareka, silversmith “Buraku” has also been arrested in Pristina. The event was carried out by four police officials who took out customers at the bar, and then arrested the owner. Then the jewelry is closed.

One of those arrested for armed robbery in Suhareka appears to be Bujar Basha from Prizren.

A former convict of another robbery immediately after the war in Kosovo, which had served 16 years and 8 months in prison for crime and had repeatedly escaped from Dubrava.

Basha, during the period of suffering sentences, had repeatedly escaped from the Dubrava prison, where she was kept isolated because of her crimes, thus making herself a person known to the security authorities in the country.

On one occasion he was part of a group of seven prisoners who had fled Dubrava, using firearms.

According to the first reports, part of the group that carried out the 22 November armed robbery was Dukagjin's brother Korab Gashi. And that one is still on the run, and the police are looking for him.

On November 22nd, there was an armed robbery at a jewelry store in the town of Suhareka. In an attempt to prevent the robbery, a Kosovo policeman standing has been wounded.

In addition to one injured policeman, there was another injured.

The next day three suspects were arrested. Two of them, the Prizren Court, has imposed a month of detention until another was released.

The two detainees, Albin Beqiri and Fatmir Tahiri, are suspected of helping carry out the armed robbery. They, after the arrest, were sent to detention in Dies High Security Prison.