Among the traces of the conflict between the Kosovo police and armed attackers in Banjska, in the north of Kosovo, there is a damaged truck with the logo of a company from Serbia at the entrance to the village.
Radio Free Europe states that he could not independently confirm whether the company "VS Energy", whose name is written on the door of the truck, is the owner of that vehicle. However, RSE's research has proven the company's business ties with Milan Radoičić, the vice-president of the Serbian List - the leading party of Serbs in Kosovo, which enjoys the support of official Belgrade.
The company "VS Energy" is a business partner with the road company "Novi Pazar-put", whose owners are Radoičić, businessman from the north of Kosovo Zvonko Veselinović and his brother Žarko Veselinović.
Milan Radoičić, along with Zvonko Veselinović, as BIRN wrote, has the status of the informal master of northern Kosovo.
Radoicic is accused by the Kosovo authorities of organizing and participating in the attack on the Kosovo police on September 24 in Banjska, and earlier the official Pristina linked him to criminal activities.
Milan Radoičić and some other participants of the bloody skirmish near Banjska are now available to the Serbian authorities. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić told RTS that Milan Radoičić is in "central Serbia" and that he will have to "answer questions".
If our security services did not know that an incident was being prepared in Kosovo, then they failed the exam, he said N1 Srđan Hercigonja from the Belgrade Center for Security Policy.
Commenting on the attackers in Banjska, he pointed out that they can be called "some kind of para-military, para-police or para-party unit" if it is established that Milan Radoičić was one of the organizers of the incident.
"And that is very significant because then the political element gets involved." And all the evidence we have so far, and if we take into account his role in Kosovo, it is simply unbelievable that something like that is organized there without his knowledge and approval, says Herzigonja.
And will Radoičić and others in Serbia be prosecuted?
"Milan Radoičić never hid. He will respond to the invitation of the authorities of the Republic of Serbia. He is a man who considers himself a freedom fighter. "But there are things and questions that he will have to answer," the president said.
Srđan Hercigonja believes that there is no possibility that Radoičić will be extradited to Pristina, and that he has already been charged with other matters before the Pristina institutions, but that he is in Serbia all the time.
"He can be held accountable before Pristina institutions only if something drastic changes regarding the support he has from Belgrade," he concluded.
Lawyer Ivan Ninić says that already publicly available information is enough for the Serbian prosecution to open a case on Banjska.
"Serbia would not be able to characterize this as an act of terrorism, because it does not recognize Kosovo, but it could first find a milder qualification - for example, unauthorized possession and carrying of weapons, to form a case and start collecting information, maybe order someone to be detained."
Ninić is interviewed for Deutsche says said that what Radoičić and others tell the Serbian investigators in general will be agreed in advance with the regime in Belgrade and the BIA.
"A possible exit strategy for Vučić - but also for Radoičić and other persons who are obviously undergoing hospital treatment - would be an agreement with the prosecution to admit some guilt. That's how they would go to prison and practically be saved," says Ninic.
"This has been seen many times when it comes to people from the world of crime - they are convicted of illegal possession of weapons or falsification of documents in order to prevent extradition to another country or prosecution for more serious crimes," adds Ninic.
As he says, Serbia will be under enormous pressure to seriously try Radoičić and the others.
"This is now a burden on the shoulders of the entire nation, because we can become a safe house for Radoičić. And by letting Radoičić down the water, Vučić would be cutting the branch on which he is sitting," Ninić concludes.
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