Slavko Simiq, a Member of Parliament from the Serb List in Kosovo, is accused of inciting protesters to attack Albanian journalists during tensions in Leposaviq on\u00a0June 16, 2023. He has\u00a0not stated whether he would resign from his parliamentary position if found guilty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked by\u00a0KosovaPress\u00a0about this issue, Simiq said he would make further statements in due course. He did not clarify whether he would step down if convicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a brief comment to the media, Simiq said: The\u00a0initial hearing\u00a0against Simiq and\u00a0Urosh Vukasinovi\u0107, who is also accused, was scheduled today at the Basic Court in Mitrovica. The charges relate to inciting protesters to attack journalists during the Leposaviq protests. However, the hearing was\u00a0postponed\u00a0due to missing case documents for Simiq and his lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simiq has claimed he had\u00a0no involvement\u00a0in the incident and considers himself \u201cabsolutely innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the\u00a0indictment by the Basic Prosecution in Mitrovica, on June 16, 2023, during protests against the visit of the Minister of Local Government Administration, Elbert Krasniqi, Simiq allegedly\u00a0ordered the crowd to attack media representatives, who were subsequently assaulted with smoke bombs, punches, kicks, and heavy objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is charged with\u00a0\u201cparticipation in a crowd committing a criminal offense\u201d and hooliganism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vukasinovi\u0107 faces similar charges, with additional accusations for\u00a0assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slavko Simiq, a Member of Parliament from the Serb List in Kosovo, is accused of inciting protesters to attack Albanian journalists during tensions in Leposaviq on\u00a0June 16, 2023. He has\u00a0not stated whether he would resign from his parliamentary position if found guilty. When asked by\u00a0KosovaPress\u00a0about this issue, Simiq said he would make further statements in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":76911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[458,3397,366,6571,6682],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76912,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76910\/revisions\/76912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“Thank you very much, that\u2019s my statement. I have made a statement, and there will be an opportunity to give more statements later.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n