Serbian authorities detain three Kosovar policemen

Kosovo PM calls for immediate release of officers

June 15 () –

At least three Kosovar police officers have been arrested this Wednesday by the Serbian authorities in the city of Leposavic, in northern Kosovo.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has denounced that “both the incursion of the (Serbian Armed) Forces and the kidnapping are open acts of international aggression.” Thus, he has indicated that this action “has the objective of escalation and destabilization.

“We suspect that they have been kidnapped by the Serbian Army as revenge by Serbia for yesterday’s arrest of the famous criminal Milun Milenkovic ‘Lune’, one of the leaders of organized crime and smuggling,” said the head of government, who referred to the alleged instigator of the clashes that resulted in more than twenty wounded members of the NATO Mission in Kosovo (KFOR).

Milenkovic was arrested on Tuesday by Kosovo police in the northern municipality of North Mitrovica, with a Serb majority, on suspicion of orchestrating attacks against NATO peacekeepers in late May, according to the Balkan Insight portal.

Kurti has called for the immediate release “of the three kidnapped police officers” and has urged the international community to denounce “these acts of aggression”, as indicated on his social networks.

The Kosovo Police has reported that the three agents were at a strategic point avoiding crime, smuggling and the introduction of illegal products into the territory, according to Kosova Press.