On October 3, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia said the police had detained an ex-official from the main political party of the ethnic Serbs in Kosovo.
This was reported by the Balkan office of Radio Liberty.
Until recently, the deputy chairman of the Serbian List party in Kosovo, Milan Radojcic, admitted to organizing and participating in the events that provoked clashes with the Kosovo police near an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo late September.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who has denied claims of Belgrade’s involvement in the clashes, said on September 27 that Serbian authorities would interrogate Radojcic in this regard. Kosovo accuses the ethnic Serb politician of plotting and participating in an attack on a monastery that left four people killed – a policeman and three culprits.
According to the statement released by Radojčić’s lawyer on September 29, he took responsibility for the organization and attack in the village of Banjska in the north of Kosovo. In the letter read out by the lawyer, the politician claims that he came to Banjska to “resist” the Kosovo authorities and “protect” local Serbs.
On the same day, Radojčić resigned as vice president of the Serbian List, the largest party of Kosovo Serbs supported by Belgrade.
The Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office said on September 25 it had discovered the body of the fourth attacker about 1.5 kilometers from the monastery, where about 30 perpetrators sporting tactical or military uniforms, who may have been connected to the Orthodox monastery in the village of Banjska, had been a day earlier.
Kosovo authorities said yesterday that police had regained control of the area around the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Banjska in the country’s predominantly Serb north after a tense standoff in an overnight attack by an armed group that left a policeman dead.
