Vetevendosje has condemned last night’s attack on one of its activists, Agron Kabashi, as “a cowardly act by the criminal regime”. In a press conference today, Vetevendosje’s Dardan Molliqaj said Kabashi was beaten with metal bars by unknown persons and sustained injuries to his head, face and rest of the body. Molliqaj said the attack on Kabashi was premeditated and occurred shortly after the publication of a poll results which showed Vetevendosje being the most supported party in Kosovo.

Most media report that Kosovo Police raided today the house of Vetevendosje organizational secretary, Dardan Molliqaj, after the latter recently told a press conference in Pristina that “arms can be found in my house”. “There are over 300,000 illegal arms in Kosovo. There can be arms even in my house in Beleg, because my relatives were involved in the war, these are arms that they never surrendered.

Vetevendosje’s organizational secretary, Dardan Molliqaj, said today he was confident that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro will not be ratified by the Kosovo Assembly. “Peaceful protests will convince many members of parliament not to vote in favor of the demarcation. The protest will escalate only if there is provocation by the police,” Molliqaj said.

Vetevendosje leader, Visar Ymeri, told a press conference in Pristina today that the Vetevendosje activists, who were arrested by police today over their alleged participation in a bomb attack on the Kosovo Assembly on August 4, are innocent and that the weapons seized during the raids today have nothing to do with the bomb attack. Telegrafi quotes Ymeri as saying, “the Kosovo Police is continuing to frame cases against Vetevendosje activists with the same methods previously used by the Serbian State Security Service”.

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