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A Serb house set on fire in Klina (KIM radio, Kosovo Online)

Portal Kosovo online reported that a Serb house in Klina was set on fire between Thursday and Friday.

''Police and fire units went to the scene and the fire was extinguished in about 3 hours," Bozidar Sarkovic, the president of the interim authority of the Klina municipality, told Kosovo Online.

The Pesic family was "disturbed and afraid due to the burning of their neighbor's house," reports KIM radio, quoting the portal.

Court in Pec acquitted returnee Milorad Zajic from Klina (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

The Basic Court in Pec has acquitted the Klina returnee Milorad Zajic, who was accused of committing a war crime against the civilian population in the village of Dusevic during the conflict in Kosovo.

The court found prosecution did not substantiate the indictment and also revoked the measure of house arrest in which Zajic spent almost a year. Zajic’s lawyer Dejan Vasic told this to Tanjug. He also noted this is a first-degree decision, and the prosecution has the right to appeal.

 

Houses robbed, thieves intruded house where old woman is living (Radio Kontakt plus, KoSSev, Radio Gorazdevac)

Unknown perpetrators robbed several houses of Serb returnees in the village of Grabac, Klina municipality. According to Radio Gorazdevac, thieves intruded the house in which an old Serbian woman is living.

The two remaining old women in the village, were also targets of thieves. Thieves entered the house of 88 years old Ilinka Nesic around midnight. They did not take away anything, but the old women suffered great fear. The case is reported to the police, and it conducted an investigation.

The main trial in the criminal proceedings against Milorad Zajic began (Kontakt plus radio)

The main trial in the criminal proceedings against Milorad Zajic, a returnee from Klina, started yesterday before the presiding judge of the criminal court of the Basic Court in Pec, Kreshnik Radoniqi, confirmed lawyer of the accused, Dejan A. Vasic for the radio.

Vasic noted that this case had already been investigated by EULEX prosecutors, and that the investigation was ended due to lack of evidence.

House arrest to Zajic extended for two more months (KIM Radio)

The Basic Court in Pec judge Sul Lokaj made decision to extend the house arrest to Klina returnee Milorad Zajic for two more months, KIM Radio reported.

Kosovo Special Prosecution suspects Zajic of committing a war crime, as he allegedly at the end of the 1999 conflict, as a police member took part in burning Albanian houses. He was arrested on 19 March 2018, and a day later placed under house arrest.

Shots fired at a Serb home in Klina/Kline municipality (Tanjug)

Unknown perpetrators fired shots last night at a Serb house in the Rudica village in Kosovo, Klina/ Kline municipality, Tanjug learned from the sources at Kosovo's Ministry for Return and Communities.

No one was injured in the attack on Zarko Siljkovic's family home. The incident has been reported to the Kosovo Police.

At the time of the incident two people, father and son, were  in the house. The material damage was caused by bullets that hit the wall of the house.

Islamists from Kosovo shot at Serb houses before the arrest in Decani (Blic)

The investigation against Islamists arrested in front of Decani Monastery was extended because of the suspicion that two hours before they were arrested, they shot at Serb houses in Klina/Kline. Although Kosovo police strongly denied that the four young men are Islamists and that they were planning an attack the monastery of Visoki Decani, the prosecutor from Pec/Peja was of a different opinion.

Serbian house stoned in Klina/Kline (RTS)

The house of an elderly couple Mazić in Klina/Kline was stoned several times in the last three days. The attackers pelted the windows of the house, so the damage was already considerable, told the RTS remaining Serbs in the town.

Ruža and Živan Mazić, about 70 years old, have reported all the attacks so far to the police.

The perpetrators of previous attacks have not been found.

In Klina/Kline live about twenty Serbian returnee families.

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Jevtic: Emergency measures to protect the returnees and their property (KIM radio, TV Most, Blic)

The house of family Lazic in Klina/Kline was stoned on Wednesday night.  Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic assessed the situation as alarming and that urgent steps have to be taken in order to protect the returnees and their property in this and other parts of Kosovo.