Attack on KFOR soldiers and Kosovo Police in Zvecan, one sentenced to two years in prison

The Basic Court of Pristina sentenced a man to imprisonment and a fine on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to violence against soldiers of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, as well as members of the Kosovo Police two years ago.

Ljubiša Miljković was sentenced to two years in prison and a 14,000 euro fine for attacking KFOR soldiers and Kosovo Police during the May 29, 2023 protest in the Municipality of Zvečan.

Milkovic pleaded guilty in a plea agreement with the Special Prosecution Office, which charged him with the criminal offenses of assault on an official person and participation in a crowd committing a criminal offense and hooliganism.

Milkovic's defense attorney, Miloš Delević, said that the plea agreement was reached with full will, reports "Oath for Justice".

Milkovic was arrested earlier this year and the court said he will be held in custody until the verdict is final.

More than 90 KFOR members had suffered injuries – some of them serious – after clashes with Serbian protesters in May of that year.

There were also injuries from this clash 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 a Serb majority, following local elections held earlier that year that were boycotted by Serbs.

Kosovo authorities have arrested and charged dozens of suspects over the violence in Zvecan last year.

So far, several people have been sentenced to prison after plea agreements with the prosecution in connection with the violence in Zvecan.

Kosovo has blamed Serbia for the violence in Zvecan, saying that behind the violence were "criminal groups close to the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić."

But Belgrade has rejected this accusation, saying that the Kosovo government was aiming to push the Serbs "towards a new conflict with NATO."

NATO has consistently called for the perpetrators of violence to be held accountable./REL

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