Terrorist attack in the north of Kosovo, one policeman is killed and another is injured

A terrorist attack took place this morning in the north of Kosovo. A Kosovo Police officer, Afrim Bunjaku, was killed in the early hours of Sunday in the village of Banjska, the Kosovo Police announced.

Also, according to the Police, as a result of the attack, a police official, Alban Rashiti, and another police officer were injured.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, has called the attack a terrorist, saying that organized crime with “political, financial and logistical support from official Belgrade is attacking our country”.

The other two officers are out of danger and are being treated in Pristina. Rashiti has had the shell removed in a successful surgery.

Through a press release, the Police said that at around 02:34 the rapid response units noticed that at the entrance to the village of Banjska, two heavy trucks (without license plates) were placed on the bridge and the entrance to this village through the bridge cannot be done, as it is blocked.

“The orderly units of the Zveçan police station, after receiving the information, responded to the case and set out with three units in the direction of the location and as soon as they arrived near the place where the blockade was reported, the police units encountered resistance from several different positions were shot with an arsenal of firearms, including hand grenades and rocket launchers, where as a result of the shots, two police officers were shot.”

The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, has said that the murder in the north was “planned, orchestrated and executed by Serbian criminal gangs”.

“These attacks prove once again the destabilizing power of criminal gangs, organized by Serbia, which for a long time, as has been proven with the attacks on KFOR members, journalists and citizens, are aiming to destabilize Kosovo and the region”, she said among other things.

The Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, Glauk Konjufca, has asked the United States and the European Union to condemn Serbia for, as he said, “this open aggression against Kosovo”.

The American ambassador in Kosovo, Jeffrey Hovenier, has strongly condemned the “violent and orchestrated” attacks on the Kosovo Police on September 24 in the north.

“The Kosovo Police has full legitimacy to guarantee the rule of law, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of Kosovo. We accept and respect its role as the first response to emergencies and crisis situations”, said Ambassador Hovenier.

Official Belgrade has warned about these riots after the failure of the meeting in Brussels.

Serbia warns of tensions in kosovo

Meanwhile, the president’s chief of staff, Blerim Vela, has said that the “little green men” of Serbia have entered 15 kilometers inside the territory of Kosovo with armored vehicles.

According to him, the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, has launched an unprecedented aggression against Kosovo, but “he will fail”. /Geopost/