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The accused for the attack on KFOR and Kosovo Police members is arrested
2026-01-14 12:39:35 / KOSOVA
Kosovo authorities arrested a man on Wednesday on suspicion of attacking members of the NATO peacekeeping mission in the country, as well as the Kosovo Police, during the 2023 protests in the north of the country.
In a brief statement on Facebook, the Kosovo Special Prosecution Office did not provide further details about the suspect, identifying him only by the initials SR. He was arrested during an operation between prosecutors and police investigators from the Directorate for Serious and Organized Crime on Wednesday, according to the statement. More than 90 KFOR members had suffered injuries – some of them serious – following clashes with Serb protesters in May 2023 in Zvecan.
There were also injuries on the protesters' side. The violence in Zvecan erupted after local Serbs opposed the entry of new Albanian mayors into municipal buildings in Zvecan, Leposavić and Zubin Potok – municipalities in northern Kosovo inhabited by Serbs – following local elections held earlier that year, which were boycotted by Serbs. Kosovo authorities have arrested and charged dozens of suspects in the violence in Zvecan over the past year.
So far, several people have been sentenced to prison after plea agreements with the prosecution. Kosovo has blamed Serbia for the violence in Zvecan, saying that “criminal groups close to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić” were behind the violence.
But Belgrade has rejected this accusation, saying that the Kosovo government was aiming to push Serbs “towards a new conflict with NATO.” NATO has consistently demanded that the perpetrators of the violence be held accountable.
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