17 minutes agoTwelve-day stay in Kraleva prison of Serb forces kidnapped police
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(3 years ago)“On June 14, 2023, around 12:30 lunching, there were suddenly surrounded by about 15 uniformed persons who later resulted in being members of Serbia's security forces, who were attacked and disarmed and sacked in their cars”, were [...]
On Wednesday of June 14th, Serbian forces kidnapped three border police patrols within Kosovo's territory, exactly at the site called Trisave/Bare, on the border line north of Kosovo.
The kidnapping of three Kosovo police officers, the first of which had named Serbia's revenge after Kosovo the previous day had arrested one of the May 26th violent protests in the north, as well as the chief leader of “Civil Protection”, Milun Milenkovic, known as “Llune”.
He also called on international allies to condemn this act of aggression by Serbia, and police officers to be released immediately.
The executive head of the press conference had also published photographs from where police were kidnapped.
While the country's president, Vjosa Osmani, had said that this act testifies that Serbia continues to act on the logic of the past, whose hegemonistic tendencies have caused terrible crimes and many victims”.
The kidnapping of three police officials within the territory of the Republic of Kosovo is the aggression on the part of Serbia”.
While the very day the police were kidnapped, Kosovo police held an extraordinary conference, where Kosovo Police spokesman Bucky Kelan had said the case occurred “has been classic kidnapping by Serbian forces”, and that the border police unit has been on official duty at the static point in Bare, deep within the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, performing official duties.
Two days after the kidnapping, the Kralev Court imposed the 30-day detention measure on three kidnapped Kosovo police officers, while for the immediate release of border patrol officers seized by Serbian forces, the US, Germany and the United Kingdom repeatedly called.
On Tuesday, June 20th, Ambassador Jethish Yasar managed to meet the three police officers separately, while details were given about the meetings they had held.
Foreign Affairs and Diaspora Minister Donika Grovalla at the news conference last week said Jashari had informed him that, according to what the three policemen had told him in the Kraleva prison, that “with the case of assaulting them, some of Serbia's security forces have fired weapons into the air, causing panic in police officers and making their resistance more difficult.
At the moment of the kidnapping, the three police officers have been raising lunch at the improvised table, which is immediately near the first hole and 15 meters of the second hole. As for clarification of the pits are in the north to prevent access to these illegal vehicles that bring smuggling goods, the pits, according to officers, are within the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, because we do not open holes that are within the territory of the Republic of Serbia, and that at least 200 metres from the borderline that shared Kosovo with Serbia”, Grovara had said.
Also snore that day said one of the cops, Mr. Mustafa had told Ambassador Jetish that “is still missing basic medicine, which he regularly uses for his health condition and that it is making it very difficult for him to stay in prison”.
For the kidnapped officers, EU High Representative Josep Borrell also at the June 22nd meeting in Brussels, with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, has asked him for their immediate release, and unconditionally, why European Diplomacy Chief named the kidnapping “arrest”.
While, today 12 days from their classic <x0-tracking “by Serbian forces, the Court in Kralev has ruled for the release of three Kosovo police officers, but the Belgrade lawyer, Gradimir Nallic, who represented them, said the indictment against them has been confirmed, but that they will be protected in freedom.
Prime Minister Kurti, as well as Minister of Internal Affairs Jjelal Svecla, said Serbia should take responsibility for violating Kosovo's territorial integrity, while the country's first opposition, Vjosa Osmani thanked international allies who helped release the three policemen.
Svechla also received three police officers into the office after their arrival in Kosovo.
“Skenari who confirmed Vuciqi as the master of the” crossing was the statement of the first Deputy Prime Minister, Besnik Bislimi, who said that the Serbian president used a four-step strategy, and one of them was propaganda aimed at exposing the Kosovo side as the blame for tension. /Reporter.net
