Pristina has charged 45 people in connection with last September's terrorist attack by ethnic Serbs in the village of Banjska, northern Kosovo.
Then about 30 gunmen stormed across the border and attacked a Kosovo police patrol. Police officer Afrim Bunyaku was killed. Subsequently, the terrorists barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery near the border. Three of them were eliminated and the rest of the group fled to Serbia.
Kosovo authorities are continuing to prosecute dozens of people accused of orchestrating the attack.
"They are accused of threats to constitutional order, terrorism and money laundering," prosecutor Naim Abazi said of the 45 accused today.
BGNES recalls that Kosovo has been calling for the extradition of the organizer of the attack - Milan Radojcic, who was briefly detained by the Serbian authorities after the attack and later released.
Radojcic is a Kosovo Serb, an influential businessman and a close associate of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. For years, Radojčić led the Serbian List party in northern Kosovo, supported by Belgrade.
Radojcic himself admitted that he personally led the terrorist group in September, but the Serbian authorities refuse to extradite him to Kosovo. | BGNES
