Montenegrin authorities investigating shooting incidents at border between Montenegro, Kosovo

In both cases, police and prosecutors suspect the shooting was conducted by Kosovo's territory, has confirmed to Radio Free Europe chief Constitutional Prosecutor in Roshaja, Aldin Kallach.

The targets of the ski centre, located near the Kosovo-Montenegrin border on Roshaya territory and are still under construction, have been guarded by police since July.

The prosecution in Roshaja had already opened a case for the July 2024 incident when bullet holes were found in the lift facility.

After finding new injuries at the cable lift at the end of August this year, the prosecution has asked police to collect data to open cases for the incident as well.

The late August “Direct has been observed three injuries in the cabin of the ski centre by firearms. Police have taken action to reveal the authors, but the difficult situation remains the fact that the move was carried out by the territory of the Republic of Kosovo”, Kalac said.

He added that police are still collecting information and that co-operation has also been required by Kosovo police.

Among international institutions, Kosovo Police have been submitted requests for co-operation and author identification. But, so far we haven't got answers. After gathering all information will open a full case of”, Kallach stressed for REL.

Fadil Gashi from Kosovo Police for the Pec region told Radio Free Europe that there is no information about security incidents at the border with Montenegro, stressing that regional police are more engaged “in maintaining order and public calm”, not international incidents.

Free Europe Radio has also been addressed to the Kosovo Police Central Directorate with the question of whether they have any information regarding the case and is awaiting the response. For the same issue, the answer is also expected by the Kosovo government.

On the other hand, Peja Chairman Gazmend Mujajiri told Radio Free Europe that he has contacts with local authorities in Rozaja, namely with Chairman Rahman Husovic, but that no one has informed him about those allegations or incidents.

I'm hearing it from you now. Nobody contacted me, nobody reported anything. I've seen the mayor of Roshaia for the last time in June, but I haven't received a complaint. Seven days ago I was at Plav, they could tell me something, but no one told me anything”, he said.

Incidents at the ski center, also a case at the Communist Convention in Roshaya

At the Sydney Municipal Assembly session, held on 18 September, the head of the Security Department in this municipality, Vdalmir Dellevic, has declared that several incidents -- including a heavier one on 24 August of this year -- have been recorded at the next Hajla-West ski centre.

He has confirmed that the incident had occurred even in July last year and that since July 9th of this year, police have been maintaining the ski centre 24 hours a day, as they had <x0 operational information that all infrastructure could be jeopardised”.

The “Incident occurred on July 24th, 2024, when firearms were used from neighboring state territory and metal construction damaged near the upper door of the skiing centre under construction”, Dellevic said.

For the August 24th incident this year, he added that the case “could exceed the framework of a security incident and be raised to a diplomatic level of”.

“A report has just been compiled on this and submitted to the director. He and the Minister of Internal Affairs will address the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which will take measures... which I don't know”, Dellevic said.

Last year's public opinion incident had not been announced, nor has it been for the preservation of the police centre since July of this year, nor for the latest August incident.

The Ministry of Interior and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Police Directorate, have not been promoted to the issue. Radio Free Europe has sent questions to all these institutions.

The next ski centre is located on the territory around which border disputes had been made

The next ski centre is located in an area ten years ago at the centre of the dispute between Montenegro and Kosovo for demarcation of the border. Part of the politicians in Kosovo then claimed the country had lost about eight thousand hectares of land.

Montenegro and Kosovo, in August 2015, signed the demarcation agreement in Vienna, based on the 80km-long border defined with the 1974 Federation Socialist Constitution.

The deal sparked sharp reactions of the opposition and village residents along the border, who claimed Kosovo was losing thousands of hectares of land.

The Vetevendosje movement, at that time opposition and led by Albanian Prime Minister Albin Kurti today, organised protests, strongly rejecting the agreement.

As Montenegro ratified the agreement in 2015, the Kosovo Assembly approved it three years later, in March 2018.

Ratification of the demarcation agreement was one of the European Union's recent conditions for visa liberalisation for Kosovo.

Building the Skiing Center began seven years ago

Construction of the Haylla-West Skiing Center began at the end of 2018.

So far about 80 percent of the work has been completed, and earlier seven miles [seven km] of roads were built to ski tracks. The deadlines for completing the project have been exceeded several times.

In 2023, the government allocated about ten million euros for the work at the ski center in Roshaja.

On 29 September this year, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament and Bosniak Party MP Mirsad Nrkovic said that the government, at that day's meeting, had allocated an additional 1.6m euros for this ski centre.

With that, this year's investments total 4.1m euros, Nrkovic explained in a Bosniak Party communique