K. Serb man in custody for another month
Kosovo Serb Goran Vučković will remain in prison for another month, "because of suspicion that he took a part in a string of criminal acts".
Wednesday, 19.08.2009.
10:01
Kosovo Serb Goran Vuckovic will remain in prison for another month, "because of suspicion that he took a part in a string of criminal acts". This is according to representatives of Prizren courts and prosecution, who said there was also suspicion that he committed crimes against humanity. K. Serb man in custody for another month Vuckovic was arrested in a village near Prizren a week ago while he was visiting his parents, and after an altercation with neighbors. At the time it was announced that he was recognized as perpetrator of war crimes in the province by a person "who for now remains a protected witness". Chief of the District Public Prosecution Skender Morina stated that his detention will be extended on suspicion that he "participated in the demolition of the Prizren League building", and in "persecution of Albanians from the Orahovac region". Investigative judge Filim Skoro told Germany's WDR radio that the Serb, previously employed as a bulldozer driver, according to materials in the court's possession, "was a member of an illegal organization". Skoro said that this organization was called "the Black Hand" and that it acted in Prizren "and perhaps elsewhere in Kosovo". Skoro explained that the case will be handed over to the EULEX special prosecution, and that further proceedings "will depend on concrete circumstances". The EU mission's regional office in Prizren would not make any comments regarding the case. Meanwhile, Vuckovic's lawyer Fatmir Celina, hired by the family, asked for his client to be released and filed his appeal with the Prizren District Court and the president of the EULEX assembly of judges. The appeal said that Vuckovic should be released "until his guilt has been proven", and calls on the court "not to act in the same way as Serbian prosecution", which according to this, before 1999, "charged lawyers, prosecutors and judges in Kosovo with supposed irredentism and terrorism without evidence and arguments". Vuckovic's family has rejected any possibility that he had committed war crimes, stating that he was never called up and never took part in war operations.
K. Serb man in custody for another month
Vučković was arrested in a village near Prizren a week ago while he was visiting his parents, and after an altercation with neighbors.At the time it was announced that he was recognized as perpetrator of war crimes in the province by a person "who for now remains a protected witness".
Chief of the District Public Prosecution Skender Morina stated that his detention will be extended on suspicion that he "participated in the demolition of the Prizren League building", and in "persecution of Albanians from the Orahovac region".
Investigative judge Filim Škoro told Germany's WDR radio that the Serb, previously employed as a bulldozer driver, according to materials in the court's possession, "was a member of an illegal organization".
Škoro said that this organization was called "the Black Hand" and that it acted in Prizren "and perhaps elsewhere in Kosovo".
Škoro explained that the case will be handed over to the EULEX special prosecution, and that further proceedings "will depend on concrete circumstances".
The EU mission's regional office in Prizren would not make any comments regarding the case.
Meanwhile, Vučković's lawyer Fatmir Celina, hired by the family, asked for his client to be released and filed his appeal with the Prizren District Court and the president of the EULEX assembly of judges.
The appeal said that Vučković should be released "until his guilt has been proven", and calls on the court "not to act in the same way as Serbian prosecution", which according to this, before 1999, "charged lawyers, prosecutors and judges in Kosovo with supposed irredentism and terrorism without evidence and arguments".
Vučković's family has rejected any possibility that he had committed war crimes, stating that he was never called up and never took part in war operations.
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