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Attack in Banjska/ Prosecution: The perpetrators should be sentenced to life imprisonment, the terrorist group trained at the Serbian military training ground!
2025-04-17 14:27:13 / KOSOVA
In the first hearing of the Banjska attack case held at the Basic Court of Pristina, the prosecution requested life imprisonment for the defendants. While the defendants pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism, financing terrorism and serious criminal offenses, evidence provided by the prosecutor shows that the terrorist group trained in the premises of the Serbian military training ground.
The lawyer for the family of Afrim Bunjaku, the sergeant killed in the Banjska terrorist attack, requested a life sentence for all the defendants, as members of the group that on September 24, 2023, carried out the armed attack in the north of the country.
He made the request at the first court session of the process that began at the Basic Court of Pristina.
Milan Radoićić, former deputy leader of the Serbian List – the largest Serb party in Kosovo that has the support of official Belgrade – has claimed responsibility for the armed attack in Banjska. It is believed that he and most of the members of the armed group are at large in Serbia.
At the hearing, the prosecutor in the case, Naim Abazi, presented videos and photographs from the scene of the incident, with the aim of proving the organization and conduct of this terrorist attack.
"The videos clearly show how the group had taken care in detail about the location and entry of how they would operate in this area," the prosecutor stated.
The indictment states that this group, through the use of violence with heavy weapons, attempted to "separate the northern part of the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, namely the municipalities inhabited by a Serb majority, and to annex this part of the territory to the Republic of Serbia."
At the beginning of the hearing, defendants Vladimir Tolic, Blagoje Spasojevic and Dusan Maksimovic pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism, financing of terrorism and serious criminal offences.
The three defendants were arrested after the attack in Banjska, Zvecan, while 42 others, with Milan Radoić at the top of the list, remain at large. The prosecution has requested a trial in absentia for them.
Kosovo authorities describe the attack in Banjska as a terrorist act and accuse Serbia of being behind it.
Belgrade has denied any involvement in the attack in Banjska, while President Aleksandar Vučić has stressed that this attack is not terrorist, but that it is being investigated.
The international community has strongly condemned the attack in Banjska and demanded that those responsible be brought to justice.
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