Belgrade was unaware of Radoicic's actions - lawyer

BELGRADE - Srpska lista deputy leader Milan Radoicic on Friday tendered his irrevocable resignation from his post, his lawyer Goran Petronijevic announced at a press conference, adding that Belgrade had been unaware of Radoicic's actions prior to last weekend's deadly clashes in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

In a press statement read out by Petronijevic, Radoicic said he had gone to the Banjska area with a group of other Serbs on September 24 to encourage local Serbs to resist the terror by Albin Kurti's regime.

"Of that, I was informing no one from the structures of the authorities of the Republic of Serbia or local political structures in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, nor did I have any assistance from them because, by that time, we already had differing views on past methods of resisting Kurti's terror," Radoicic said in the statement.