Coordinator of the Management Team for the establishment of Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities (ACSM), Vinka Radosavljevic was prevented on Saturday by the Kosovo police to cross Jarinje point and continue her journey towards Raska, TV Most reported.
Several hours after publishing them, Pristina-based media denied their own stories about deployment of Serbian troops to the boundary with Kosovo, Serbian media write today.
Serbia deployed "armed troops to the border with Kosovo," media in Pristina reported earlier, according to the Beta news agency.
"This is the first time since 2008 and the declaration of independence that Serbia has sent soldiers and Gendarmes so close to the border with Kosovo," the report continued.
Dejan Slavic who was in detention under war crimes charges raised the Basic Court in Pristina was set free, his lawyer, Nebojsa Vlajic confirmed to KoSSev portal.
“His detention is annulled. The decision says there are no reasons for detention any longer, without providing any other details. However, he was most probably arrested as he has the same name as someone else they are looking for,” Vlajic further explained.
At the Jarinje crossing in northern Kosovo, D. S. (44) was arrested on suspicion of committing war crimes in Kosovo, reports Serbian media based in Kosovo.
D.S. who lived in Obilic until 2003, and currently lives in Lazarevac, was arrested at the Jarinje crossing, and he was given a measure of detention for up to 48 hours.
Two hundred twenty-two discs (CDs) were seized yesterday at the Jarinje crossing. They were found during a control of the vehicle, by which three persons of Serb ethnicity were traveling, announced the Kosovo Police, reports Kossev.
According to the 24-hour Kosovo Police report, according to the words of the three men where discs were found - these discs had footage of March 2004 events. By the order of the prosecutor, as the report states further, entry to Kosovo was banned for the three men, reports Kossev.
Three Serbs, arrested at the Jarinje crossing point on 22 October, bus driver and two more persons are set free pending trial, KIM Radio reported.
They were arrested on the day of the Kosovo local elections, after two bombs with detonators were found in a bus, transporting displaced Serbs to vote in Kosovo.
Lawyer, Ljubomir Pantovic told Kontakt plus radio that the Basic Court in Mitrovica accepted the guarantees and set Serbs free pending trial.
Male of Serb origin was arrested at the crossing point of Jarinje, Kosovo police said, KIM Radio reported.
The police report said Kosovo Serb was arrested on Wednesday, around 20.00 hrs, based on the order of the Basic Court in Mitrovica and was sent to the detention centre.
A Serb woman, M.T. displaced from Istok, was arrested at the same crossing point last week, under the charges that she has committed a war crime. She was placed under house arrest in the Pec Patriarchate Monstery, KIM Radio reported.
The news site reports that the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi is visiting northern Kosovo today and that he currently is in Jarinje border-crossing point. The news site also notes that this is the first time a president of Kosovo is visiting the northern border-crossing points. Thaçi’s political advisor, Ardian Arifaj, confirmed the news to Klan Kosova. “President Thaçi today visited Jarinje border-crossing point,” Arifaj said.