The Special Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kosovo (SPORK), regarding the statements of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Sveçla, about the case of the police attack in Leposaviq, said that Sveçla’s statement that “police officials have asked the Special Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the incident. Even after their insistence, the Prosecutor’s Office did not respond positively”, does not present the correct overview of the event in the legal context, due to the fact that the subject competence of the Prosecutor’s Office, in this particular case, the special and complementary competence of the SPORK for the investigation of cases, it is clearly defined by law and it is not at the discretion of the police or Government officials to determine which cases should be investigated by the SPORK and which by the basic prosecutions.
The prosecution states that for this case, the Kosovo Police did not follow the regular chain of official communication established for investigation cases – communication with the guardian prosecutor, but communicated with the prosecutor responsible for terrorism in the SPORK, who after receiving the information from the police , has assessed that the case has no elements of terrorism and instructs the same that if the further actions of the police may result in elements of terrorism, the supervising prosecutor in the SPORK should be notified.
