This Monday marks 15 years since unknown persons opened fire from automatic weapons on a group of Serb youths in Kosovo.
They were spending a summer day on the banks of the Bistrica River, near their homes in the Serb enclave of Gorazdevac - a village in the western part of Kosovo.
19-year-old Ivan Jovovic, and 12-year-old Pantelija Dakic were killed in the attack.
Director of Human Centre Mitrovica NGO, Veroljub Petronic told Radio Kontakt that the latest events in Staro Gracko are only one of the few security risks that contribute to the worsening of the overall security situation in Kosovo. He says in an interview with the radio that event in Staro Gracko last night was just one of the “small corps of security risks that contribute to the destabilization of the security situation in Kosovo”.
Violent Albanian criminal groups have "considerable control" over drug trafficking in Great Britain.
At the same time, Serbians and Turks "dominate high volume maritime cocaine logistics."
This is according to a BBC report, published under the headline, "Albanian gangs 'controlling' UK drug trafficking market," that cited the National Crime Agency (NCA) annual assessment document.
All media in the Serbian language today reported about the arrest of 10 people in Kosovo and the US in a joint action by the Kosovo Police and the American DEA Service. The media also reported that the Basic Court in Pristina released Naser Kelmendi while in trial, who was charged with murder and organized crime.
Kosovo police have announced that in a joint operation with the US DEA service have arrested 10 people in Kosovo and New York, suspected of organized crime and narcotics trafficking.
"Based on expert opinion, the six Serbian youths in Pec/Peja were killed in 1998 with the same weapon as the EULEX customs officer Audrius Šenavičius in northern Kosovo in 2013," said the source for portal tesheshi.com
On Thursday around 20:30 unknown person threw a bomb on a house of Stevan Jancic in the village Pasjane, in Kosovo - Pomoravlje District. There were no injured persons in the attack said the Mayor of Pasjane, Dragan Nikolić. He told Beta news agency that this was a terrorist act that caused unrest among the Serbs who live in that part of Kosovo- Pomoravlje district. "The bomb exploded in the yard of the house which is located in the centre of the village.
The front-page editorial writes that the European Union has spent millions of euros, together with the Kosovo government, to build a facility with proper working conditions for all employees of the judiciary. The paper writes that the inauguration of the Palace of Justice yesterday was a modest step forward, but the main challenge are still there. “The judicial and prosecution systems in Kosovo are not independent. There is a heavy violation of human rights, abuses, massive corruption and organized crime in state institutions.
Organized crime and terrorism are threatening Kosovo and the whole region, so the combat against these phenomena must be done with regional cooperation. This was said during the regional conference on "Challenges in combating organized crime and terrorism, and the cooperation in South-Eastern Europe,” Kosova Press reports. Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said that combating organized crime and terrorism must be a common struggle and that every country in the region is facing illegal migration due to lack of cooperation in these areas.
Three former Serbian fighters, including special police commander Vladan Krstovic, are accused of war crimes during an attack on the Kosovo village of Ljubenic that left 46 ethnic Albanians dead.
The case against Vladan Krstovic, Lazar Pavlovic and Milan Ivanovic for the attack on Ljubenic during the Kosovo war on April 1, 1999, during which 46 people were killed and 11 wounded, began on Monday at a closed pre-trial hearing at the Belgrade-based special court.
Basic Prosecution in Mitrovica asked a judge today to issue an international arrest warrant for former MP, Gani Geci, in relation to a murder in Skenderaj last week.
The request was filed today after a week-long search for Geci failed to produce results. In addition, the prosecution has received information that Geci is no longer in the territory of Kosovo.