The suspect for the attack on KFOR is not allowed to be released

One month of detention was assigned to the suspect Marko Daniq, for participating in the attack on KFOR during last year's protests in Zveçan. This measure was imposed by the Basic Court in Pristina, after assessing that there is a risk that he will escape since he has Serbian citizenship. Against the decision, the defense announced an appeal within the legal deadlines

The Basic Court in Pristina ordered on Saturday 30 days of detention for Marko Daniqi, suspected of attacking members of KFOR in the protest of last May in front of the municipality facility in Zveçan.

In the session of setting this measure, the court assessed that the conditions for detention have been met, since the defendant has citizenship of Serbia and can escape and repeat the crimes for which he is charged, if he is allowed to defend himself in freedom. 

"There is a well-founded fear that if the defendant Marko Danić, if he is protected in freedom, he can escape to escape the criminal responsibility before which he is, given that until the moment of his arrest he was on the run and that the same he also has citizenship of the state of Serbia, and in this way he will be elusive to the justice bodies. There is a risk of repetition of the criminal offences, based on the seriousness of the criminal offences", the Court announced.

In the request of the Prosecutor's Office, provided by KOHA, it is stated that Daniqi, together with another group, used violence against KFOR members and damaged police vehicles and journalists.

"The defendant, acting in a group, had used violence against KFOR members, using strong tools, improvised explosive devices, as well as firearms, from which at least 30 members of the KFOR peacekeeping forces were injured. it, where three of them from the projectiles of firearms and dangerous tools from which they lost their legs, as well as causing significant material damage to the vehicles of KFOR, the Kosovo Police, as well as to the vehicles of to the journalists who covered the events of this day, which include the complete burning of some vehicles or physical damage to a large extent", it is stated in the justification of the request of the prosecution, to assign the measure of detention to Daniqi.

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The lawyers of the accused qualified the testimony of the Prosecution as unfounded, and warned that they will file an appeal against the Court's decision.

"The evidence of the Prosecution is unfounded and insufficient. My client's participation in the protest in Zveçan, due to political dissent, cannot be qualified as an attack on the constitutional order. The defense, in the meantime, will file an appeal for this decision", said lawyer Nebojsha Dançetović.

Another lawyer, Bogdan Laziq, contested the measure.

"There are some unclear pictures that today can be easily manipulated to be this one, that one. And the distinguishing mark is only the identification of a certain sweater. We will file a complaint against this measure, after the delivery of the decision in the Serbian language", he said.

The violence in Zveçan erupted after local Serbs protested against the entry of new Albanian mayors into municipal facilities in Zveçan, Leposaviq and Zubin-Potok - municipalities in the north of Kosovo, inhabited by a majority of Serbs.

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As a result of the violence that followed, 93 KFOR members were injured, some of them seriously.
Earlier, KFOR said that the attack on its soldiers was carried out without any provocation and that it was "completely unacceptable".

For the incident in Zveçan, Kosovo blamed Serbia, saying that the riots were carried out by criminal groups close to the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.