Kosovo’s Kurti: Most Banjska attackers from Civil Protection, North Brigade

In June this year, the Kosovo Government declared these two groups “terrorist” organizations, explaining that their members are behind the unrest in northern Kosovo and that they are “a serious and direct threat to the constitutional order and security of Kosovo," Radio Free Europe reported.

Kosovo Police Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed in the September 24 attack in Banjska, northern Kosovo. In the exchange of fire with an armed group that followed, the Kosovo police killed three attackers.

Kurti believes that currently the most important issues are Kosovo’s security and the punishing of the people who launched the attack on the Kosovo police officers.

“Punishment for the attackers means punishment for Serbia, which financially, militarily, logistically, politically, publicly, officially supported what happened in Banjska in the Zvecan municipality, but at the same time the extradition, surrender of all those who are being prosecuted (criminally) because they fled the crime scene in our country,” said Prime Minister Kurti.

Kosovo accused Serbia of being responsible for the attack, which Belgrade rebutted, noting that the Serbs no longer wanted to put up with “Kurti’s terror.”

Western countries and the European Union have strongly condemned the attack on the Kosovo police in Banjska and have requested that the attackers be found and brought to justice.