Popovic just enters Serbia: Stay behind words for I told him at Rahovec

Popovic was arrested on July 18th at the Brnjak border checkpoint for a statement issued during a memorial service in Rahovec, where he had accused the Kosovo Liberation Army of crimes against Serbs. It was held in custody and faced indictment by the Special Prosecutor for Criminal Work “inciting division and intolerance”.

Although the court stated that Popovic had reached an agreement on admitting guilt, he himself denied such a thing in a statement for Kosovo Online, calling justice in Kosovo as <x0politically instrumentalised”.

“I just crossed the administrative border. A difficult time is over, but nothing is worse than what other Serbs are going through who are imprisoned by God's justice. Let's be clear right away, there is no agreement here with Kurti's judiciary, because I do not admit any guilt for what I said”, Popovic said.

He said he stands behind his statements in Rahovec, where he had named members of the KLA as “terrorists” and accused Kosovo justice of political persecution.

“This process is only a consequence of pressure from the politically instrumentalised judiciary in Pristina and as such there is no force,” he stressed.

At the end of his statement, Popovic thanked Serbia, the so-called Office for Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, as well as his family and supporters.