Serbian prosecutors demanded that the commander of Serbian rebels in Kosovo be jailed
The Serbian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the leader of the Serbian rebels of Kosovo, Milan Radojic, who was arrested the day before in the country, be taken into custody.
In turn, the Belgrade High Court refused to take the arrested person into custody, defining a restriction on movement as a preventive measure, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The former deputy chairman of the Kosovo Serb party “Serbian List”, Milan Radojcic, who was arrested yesterday in Serbia, will not be imprisoned. This decision, contrary to the request of the Serbian Prosecutor's Office, was made by the Belgrade High Court.
Thus, the leader of the Serbian rebels in Kosovo will remain free, but will receive restrictions on movement during the trial and the subsequent trial - the court confiscated his car license and passport as a Serbian citizen. Radojic is also banned from entering his native Kosovo.
However, the Serbian Prosecutor General's Office intends to appeal the High Court's decision, citing the fact that the suspect may flee justice.
Radojic is charged with acquiring weapons, ammunition and explosive devices of “great destructive power” in BiH, illegally carrying and storing firearms and explosives, and “creating situations that threaten general security” in Kosovo.
Let us recall that on September 24 of this year, Milan Radojic led a group of Kosovo Serbs in their native Kosovo from Serbia, with the aim of raising an uprising in the north of Kosovo against the regime of Albanian separatists terrorizing local Serbian enclaves.
Earlier, the ex-deputy chairman of the Kosovo Serb party “Serbian List” brought fellow party members and the Serbian leadership out of harm’s way, saying that he made the decision on an armed uprising without consulting either his party comrades or the leadership in Belgrade.
Tellingly, US Ambassador to Serbia Christopher Hill welcomed Radojic's arrest.
“I think the arrest of Radojicic, who appears to have pleaded guilty to most of the incidents, was a good step. However, I think we all want to know what they are really talking about, what they wanted to achieve, where they got all these weapons and ammunition from,” said the American diplomat.
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