Detention of Bogdan Mitrovic was extended for two more months based on the decision of the Basic Court in Prizren and the proposal of the Special Prosecution for War Crimes in Kosovo, lawyer Dejan A. Vasic told KoSSev portal.
“Judicial bodies and police in Kosovo and Metohija, once again obviously based on political instruction, deprived of freedom D.T. at the administrative point Brnjak, over a warrant issued for him for alleged war crimes,” Serbian Government Office for Kosovo said, KIM Radio reported.
Special War Crimes Prosecutor, Elez Blakaj has expanded the investigation against Bogdan Mitrovic to seven more persons, one of them Albanian, lawyer Dejan A. Vasic said to KIM Radio.
The Kosovo Prosecutor's Office ordered Milanka Terzić, a displaced person from Istok, a measure of compulsory reporting to the police, and it allowed her to be in the Pec Patriarchate after being arrested at the Jarinje checkpoint in northern Kosovo, reports Serbian media.
The indictment against Milanka Terzić was filed on February 21st by the Prosecution in Pec because of the suspicion of allegedly committing a war crime.
The lawyer of a Serb who was arrested in Kosovo claims his client was detained based on the statements made by one person, and with no evidence whatsoever.
Dejan Vasic told the Belgrade daily Politika that the defense team of Bogdan Mitrovic has submitted to the war crimes prosecutor in Pristina a proposal to present evidence and hear witnesses.
President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday that Serbia "will not weaken, as some would want it to, but will grow stronger."
He spoke in the context of the arrest of a displaced Serb in Kosovo, and new provocations coming out of Croatia.
Vucic said Thursday's meeting in Brussels with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci would be "influenced" by the arrest of Bogdan Mitrovic.
The arrest of people on the basis of some secret lists is just an excuse for continuing the policy of ethnic cleansing of the Serb people from Kosovo, says Marko Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, reacting on today's arrest of IDP near Suharekë/Suva Reka.
"Today, police in Mušutište, near Suva Reka, became an open instrument in the chauvinist policy of preventing the return of displaced Serbs," Đurić said, reports RTS.
Internally displaced persons and socially vulnerable families who live in a container’s settlement in Gračanica/Graçanicë are disconnected from electricity for a month and a half now. Provisional body of Pristina Municipality (Serbia sponsored institution) has brought a decision on their resettlement to another location in the suburb Padaliste, what is refused by IDPs who claim that living conditions in a new settlement are even poorer than in the current one.