Who are the accused of the attack on Banjska who were seen near the presidency of Serbia?

Official Pristina says the people charged with the 24 September 2023 attack were seen on 28 June at the Pioneer Park in Belgrade, in front of Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq's office.

But there is still no reaction from Serbia's state authorities.

Using tools for facial recognition, Radio Free Europe managed to determine that the group included Vdalmir Vucetitch from Northern Mitrovica, who is one of 45 people charged by the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office.

However, based on public information in Serbia, he is not charged with this criminal offence, Periscope.

Radio Free Europe, based on images by social networks, managed to identify at least 11 people gathered in several groups whose members were wearing the same green shirt.

According to available photos and videos, these groups stood near the Serbian Presidency building and near police units.

Two Contradicted Protests

On 28 June, a protest organised by students in the blockade was held in Belgrade.

According to estimates by the Public Rally Archives, some 140,000 people gathered at Slavija Square, demanding announcement of extraordinary elections and the removal of the so-called “Qailland”.

It's about a tent camp that was set up three months ago in Pioneer Park, about a mile from the Slavija Square.

On the other side of this park lies the presidency of Serbia.

Several students in the camp who wanted to learn “and require the reopening of faculties, now blocked by student protesters, have been deployed for seven months.

Their blockade began after the collapse of a shelter at the Hekurudhor station in Novi Sad, where 16 people died.

The group in the Pioneer Park group joined several former members of the “Red Beeret” a disbanded formation due to links with the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.

In time, the area was surrounded by metal fences and placed under police protection.

As the crowd blocked Slavija Square and the roads leading there, supporters of power at Pioneer Park organised a “literary evening”

They were joined by the leading leaders of Vuciqi's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), including Vuciqi herself at one point.

Among them was Dragoslav Bocan, former leader of the paramilitary group “Beli orlovi”, and Goran Radosavlevic Guri, former police general who is linked to the murder of the Bytyci brothers two American nationals, who descended from Kosovo in 1999.

But they were not alone.

Young People With Green shirts

While Serbian opposition politician Djordje Miketic shared a picture of three men on the social network of X and asked whether they were persons from Banjska, some Albanian-language media reported that there were four people accused by the Kosovo Special Prosecutor for Terrorism and serious crimes against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo.

The incident was set up for the attack on the Kosovo Police on September 24th, 2023, in Banjskka ʹ the northern part of Kosovo where Kosovo Police Officer Africa Bunnjak was killed.

Three Serb attackers were also killed in the subsequent armed clashes.

The group, according to his own accession, was led by Milan Radoic, who was formerly known as a businessman from Kosovo.

Radojciq and some members of the group that carried out the attack, following armed clashes, withdrew on Serbia's territory.

Using facial recognition tools, Radio Free Europe managed to determine that the group included Vdalmir Vucetijqi, from North Mitrovica, who is one of the 45 people charged by the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office.

It is in photos published on social networks that Radio Free Europe found to have taken place on June 28th near Pioneer Park.

Vucetitch, otherwise, has an open profile on Facebook, often posting photos with family, gym or cafe.

On his social networks, he is seen with the same green shirt. But in 2010, for example, it also appeared in an Obraz-signed jacket an ultra-right organisation that Serbia's Constitutional Court banned in 2012, as it was told, discrimination against minorities and spreading hate speech.

Seven years ago, Serbia's Interior Ministry labeled Obraz as a klero-fascist organisation.

Of the 45 accused by Kosovo authorities, only three members of the group are currently on trial in Kosovo.

Vucetic and the largest number of other indictees are on the run, and an Interpol warrant has been issued for them.

Silence in Serbia, while Kurti accuses

For claims that there were three other wanted persons in the group, Milorad Jevtic Mijko, Zarko Cvetkovic and Vukasin Jarediq, Radio Free Europe failed to find independent evidence based on forensics.

The REL asked Serbia's Interior Ministry whether it has identified the people located near the police brigade, as well as what measures it has taken regarding the international arrest order for Vucetyqi and others issued by Interpol in December 2023, at Kosovo's request. But until the publication of this article, there was no answer.

Kosovo's outgoing Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, reiterated on June 30th that persons charged with the attack on Banjska must be extradited to Kosovo.

“Now, the same people are closer to the president of Serbia [Aleksandar Vuciq] than his security. This shows that we were right when we said that this criminal and terrorist group was led and financed by Belgrade and that it is not a group of hooligans. These are people who were trained in Serbia, received orders from there and committed aggression against Kosovo”, Kurti told reporters.

What does the indictment say?

Of the 45 accused, Vadicir Tolliq, Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic are in custody in Kosovo, and their judgment is continuing.

The Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Act of Armed Attack in Banjca charges their majority with terrorism and serious crimes against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo.

Radoic is also accused of facilitating and financing the carrying out of terrorism and money laundering, while the entire group is accused of using heavy violence and weapons, trying to divide the northern part of Kosovo where Serb majority municipalities find and unite it with Serbia.

The Act describes Radoichi as “leader of the terrorist group”.

It is said that on September 24, 2023, after blocking the road to the village bridge with two trucks, he and the other participants hid and attacked Kosovo Police officers who went to evacuate trucks and clear the road.

Police officer Africa Bunnjak was killed in the attack while police officers were wounded: Alban Rashit, Liberation Shaqiri, Mirsad Kryeziu and Sedat Dushi.

According to the indictment, the attack lasted until 1500, when the vast majority of the group fled through mountain roads to the Republic of Serbia”.

The indictment reportedly was “professionally trained” and that they had entered Kosovo illegally from Serbia, via mountain roads, dozens of cars, some of which were armoured and loaded with heavy weapons, ammunition, rocket launchers, explosives, camouflage military uniforms and other logistical military equipment.

According to the indictment, from January 1, 2017 to September 24, 2023, when the Banjska attack took place, Radoic indirectly provided revenue, most of which were used for heavy weapons, military uniforms, logistical support, and group participants. /Radio Europe Free/