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The escape of the former member of the KLA, Belgrade demands an account from Skopje: It is scandalous

2024-08-15 18:01:14 / KOSOVA ALFA PRESS

The escape of the former member of the KLA, Belgrade demands an account from

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Macedonia confirmed on Thursday the escape of Blerim Ramadani, a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who was detained by the Macedonian police authorities on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by Serbia and was in "arrest house".

The Interior Ministry told local media that authorities are working to find Mr. Ramadani.

The authorities do not provide details on the circumstances of the escape of the citizen of Kosovo, as an online media in the Macedonian language writes that " Mr. Ramadani escaped from the house of his friends in Skopje, where he was under house arrest based on an order of the basic court in Skopje ".

According to the portal sdk.mk, after the complaint of the Prosecutor's Office, three judges of the Criminal Court on Wednesday assigned Ramadan a security measure of detention of 30 days, due to the risk that he could escape.

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According to the portal, someone from the Criminal Court had notified Mr. Ramadani and then he escaped.

Last week, the Foreign Ministry of Kosovo said that a court in Skopje decided not to hand over Mr. Ramadani to the Serbian authorities, who will continue to remain under house arrest in Skopje until the final decision of the Supreme Court of North Macedonia.

The case has clashed with political parties in the country, while law enforcement and the judiciary have rejected the accusations that accuse them of guilt in this case.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs was in charge of the supervision and control of Blerim Ramadani, according to the Criminal Court.

The Social Democratic League of the opposition demands accountability from the Minister of Order, Pançe Toshkovski, from whom he demands his resignation from the post due to the direct responsibility for Ramadan's escape.

Meanwhile, Minister Toshkovski wants to know why the court decided to leave Ramadan under house arrest and not in detention.

On the other hand, the Democratic Union for Integration sees the case as a "vassal behavior of the government in Skopje towards its neighbors, arresting former members of the KLA".

Meanwhile, the Vlen coalition parties in the government say that Mr. Blerim Ramadani should not have been arrested at all and that he was kept in detention for a long time.

The Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivica Dačič, also reacted, demanding an explanation from the Macedonian side for the escape of the former KLA soldier, while calling the case "a scandalous escape from house arrest of a terrorist and war criminal". .

Blerim Ramadani was arrested on July 17 at the border crossing between Kosovo and North Macedonia, Gllobočica - Jazhinca, near Tetova.

After several days in custody, he was released on August 1st under house arrest to his friends in Skopje, until the judicial authorities make a final decision on whether to extradite him to Serbia or not.

The Kosovo authorities, through the embassy in Skopje, had requested his release. Blerim Ramadani was a member of the Nerodime Operative Zone of the former Kosovo Liberation Army.

KLA veterans from Ferizaji, where former fighter Ramadani was a member, demanded his immediate release, while the indictments of the Serbian authorities against KLA members were fabricated and the arrests "unjust and disturbing for all veterans ".

Serbia accuses Mr. Ramadani of "war crimes in the region of Nerodime, in the municipality of Ferizaj in the summer of 1999".

This is not the first case when Macedonian authorities detain Kosovo citizens based on Serbian arrest warrants.

At least two former members of the KLA were arrested in Macedonia in the last few years with an arrest warrant from Serbia./VOA

 

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