The Basic Court in Pristina has ordered a 30-day pre-trial detention for the defendant A.D., on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of “war crime against the civilian population” in 1999, in the village of Ivaje and surrounding villages in the municipality of Kacanik.

According to the statement of the Prosecution of Kosovo, A.D., in the capacity of a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia in Ferizaj and a traffic police officer in the Kacanik region, acting in co-perpetration with other still unidentified members of Serbian police-military forces, on March 9, 1999, during an organized police-military operation against the Albanian civilian population, forced residents to leave their homes, which were then burned and destroyed.