October Group: Aleksandar Vučić to unconditionally and immediately release Kosovo police officers

The Freedom Association of free Serbia- the October group, whose president is Čedomir Stojković, a prominent Serbian lawyer fighting for a better and fairer Serbia, issued a press release demanding that Aleksandar Vucic “unconditionally and immediately release Kosovo police officers”.

They also asked the president of Serbia to answer: “What was it that Kosovo police officers were not allowed to see and were arrested?

They believe that Serbia’s current policy towards Kosovo, which was created in the Cabinet of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, “leads the country and the inevitable isolation”, which, they say, we are witnessing with the arrest of police officers of a recognized Police entity (the Brussels agreement signed by Serbia recognizes the Kosovo police) just because they crossed the border.

Such behavior is practiced by North Korea, and as such is unacceptable for modern Europe, of which Serbia is a part.

“Simply – police officers in Europe are not arrested and cannot be arrested just because they wandered 1,800 meters in wooded hills, because police officers are not criminals. This arrest is causing huge international damage to Serbia! The usual course of action in such situations is for one police to verbally warn the other and verbally order them to return to their territory. This is how our police are treated at all our borders when they wander into Bulgaria, for example. So the question is, what did the arrested Kosovo police officers see, or thought they saw, that they should not have seen, when instead of being escorted back to Kosovo they were arrested and interrogated?”

Especially considering that individuals in Serbia, they point out, including Dragoslav Bokan (director from Belgrade and former commander of the paramilitary organization Beli orlovi (White Eagles), a source close to the government, publicly say that ” Serbia is delivering weapons to the north of Kosovo.”

This is especially given that the arrest was made by members of the Anti-Terrorist Unit of the Ministry of Interior at a depth of 3,200 meters in the Ground Safety Zone (observed from Raska to Kosovo), at the place where according to the Kumanovo Agreement, this unit should not have been, because the presence of our security forces, except the local police, is prohibited in the Ground Safety Zone, which the Anti-Terrorist Unit is not, from which the conclusion is imposed that in the forests of the Ground Safety Zone, this unit, by violating the Kumanovo Agreement, secured something, but certainly not the border, considering that it is the very top of the north of Kosovo, where there are no Albanians, but only Serbs”.

The Anti-Terrorist Unit, adds the statement of the October Group did not accidentally find itself so deep in the forests of the Ground Safety Zone, and it certainly had no prior knowledge that the Kosovo policemen would wander right there.

“That is why the question arises: – what was secured by the Anti-Terrorist Unit in the part of Kosovo that is otherwise controlled by Serbs and has no fear of border incursions; – what was it, and the transfer and transport of which the arrested police officers from Kosovo were not allowed to see through the forests, so they were arrested? The Freedom Alliance of free Serbia calls for an urgent change in Serbia’s policy towards Kosovo in the interest of peace, which will be based on the following points.

1) encouraging citizens of Serbian nationality in Kosovo to respect the institutions of Kosovo, just as citizens of Serbian nationality respect the institutions of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, but also Bosnia and Herzegovina;

2) helping Kosovo to become a member of international organizations, and acting within those organizations to promote human, minority and religious rights in Kosovo, including towards Serbs and Serbian cultural and historical heritage, and helping Kosovo to achieve a standard of respect for those rights, just as other countries are helping Serbia today in doing so;

3) implementation of all signed agreements and insisting that the agreements are respected as they are stated;

4) building reconciliation, creating an atmosphere of inter-ethnic unity in the Balkans, and permanently abandoning the rhetoric of conflict and hatred, and in particular abandoning the policy of illegal arming of ethnic groups./The Geopost/