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Acting Interior Minister Xhelal Sveçla called on the international community on Friday to increase pressure on Belgrade, following the alleged injury and kidnapping of a Kosovo Serb by Serbian Gendarmerie on Kosovo soil last week.
Svečla visited the place where Milan Vukašinović from Leposavic was allegedly kidnapped near the border with Serbia.
It is suspected that Vukašinović was injured and then kidnapped on November 1 in the village of Jellakce near Leposavic, before being taken to the Prokuplje hospital, and later to the Niš Clinical Center.
"Today I inspected the part of the state border where our citizen was allegedly kidnapped," Sveçla wrote on Facebook in a post to which he also attached a photograph.
He added that, based on data and evidence "provided by our authorities, it is now known that by violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kosovo, Mr. Vukašinović was kidnapped by Serbian structures as an opponent of the Serbian List."
Serbia has not spoken about this case at all even after a week.
Radio Free Europe has asked the Serbian Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense about the incident, but has not received a response.
A day earlier, lawyer Ivan Ninic said he filed a lawsuit on behalf of Dragana Vukašinović, Vukašinović's mother, at the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Prokuplje, Serbia, for the criminal offense of attempted aggravated murder.
He said that, since the Serbian state has been silent so far, he filed a lawsuit against unknown persons, members of the Serbian Army, or the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs, or Milan Radoićić, former deputy leader of the Serbian List, who had claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the Kosovo Police in Zvečan in 2023.
The criminal complaint, which Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has had access to, states that Vukashinovic had a long history of personal conflicts with Milan Radoicic, and that "there are justifiable reasons to believe that the injured party has been kidnapped and is at risk of being taken away under unclear circumstances."
Svečla stressed on Friday that Serbia "is proving itself every day more and more not only as an aggressor state towards its neighbors, but also as an essentially anti-democratic state, since Mr. Vukašinović is still being denied the legal protection that is guaranteed by law even in the most dictatorial countries."
"I appeal to the international community to increase pressure and take measures against the Serbian state, in order to punish this destabilizing behavior, but also to prevent other situations that would raise tensions in the region," he added.
Kosovo police said two days after the incident that they had questioned eyewitnesses, who had provided information that "masked persons had entered the territory of Kosovo, injured and kidnapped the victim, and then sent him to the territory of Serbia."
Vukašinović was employed by the Kosovo Insurance Bureau at the border crossing in Jarinje, in northern Kosovo.
Radio Free Europe, using forensic facial identification tools, has confirmed that Vukashinović is the same person who on June 28 of this year had spoken publicly about the pressures he had faced, in an interview with journalist and former Serbian MP Nemanja Šarović, for the Serbian television station KTV.
During that interview, he stated that Serbs were forced to leave Kosovo institutions in November 2022 under pressure from the Serbian List, and that he himself had been a victim of pressure, adding that he did not feel safe traveling to Serbia because he had refused to resign.
"They have slandered me about many things, they have linked me to Albanians, I am not sure about traveling to Serbia. I am here in Kosovo, I bypass Serbia," he said./ REL
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