Basic Court

The so-called Kosovo police have completed a police operation in the village of Banjska, municipality of Zvean, writes Telegrafi, adding that the next steps will be decided tomorrow morning.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution announced on Monday that it has filed an indictment charging a former member of the Serbian armed forces, identified only by the initials I.B., with committing war crimes against ethnic Albanians during the Kosovo war.

"The special department of the Basic Court in Pristina accepted the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office of Kosovo, for the extension of the measure of custody of the defendants S.J. and I.S, so that the measure of detention was extended for each of them by one month", said the spokeswoman of the court, Mirlinda Gashi, according to Reporters.

Prizren Basic Court on Tuesday convicted former Kosovo Liberation Army member, Remzi Shala, known by the nom de guerre Molla e Kuqe (The Red Apple) of committing a war crime by kidnapping an ethnic Albanian man from Duhel, a village in the Suhareka/Suva Reka area, during the Kosovo war.

The head of Montenegro's public broadcaster Boris Raonic at a conference in Podgorica. Photo: PR Centar

The Higher Court ordered the RTCG council to choose one of the other candidates as a new director or make readvertise the position, stressing that Raonic must not be re-elected.

Pristina Basic Court found Naser Kelmendi guilty on Thursday and sentenced him to four years and eight months of imprisonment on drug trafficking charges.

Elementary school in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

On May 3, a seventh-grade pupil shot dead a school security worker and eight pupils in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, while six other pupils and a history teacher were injured.

Pristina Basic Court on Monday ordered 30 days of detention for A.L., suspected for setting fire to the house of Alban Selimi, a staffer on Kosovo's public broadcaster, Radio Television of Kosovo, RTK, on Thursday.

The garage which is part of the house located in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, near Pristina, was heavily damaged by the fire. No casualties were reported.

Police tape near the Basic Court building in Podgorica, Montenegro. Photo: BIRN/Jelena Jovanovic.

Police reported that the man with the initials M.B. activated a hand-grenade at the entrance of the Basic Court building.

Police are still investigating why he activated the hand-grenade. Media reported that he had been arrested for attacking police officers and drug trafficking.

Five people were injured in the explosion, who, according to Podgorica media reports, were transported to the hospital in Podgorica. A strong police force and ambulance crews are on the scene. The court building was evacuated.