{"id":77012,"date":"2025-09-24T08:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=77012"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:44:19","slug":"the-german-embassy-says-impunity-for-the-banjska-attack-is-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/the-german-embassy-says-impunity-for-the-banjska-attack-is-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"The German Embassy says impunity for the Banjska attack is unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The German Embassy in Kosovo has called it unacceptable that those responsible for the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zve\u010dan, have still not been brought to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Embassy noted that the person who claimed responsibility for the attack \u2013 Milan Radoi\u010di\u0107 \u2013 continues to live freely in Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is essential that accountability and justice be applied without any further delay,\u201d the Embassy said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo years have passed since the horrific attack in Banjska, and yet the self-declared leader of the attack, Radoi\u010di\u0107, continues to live freely in Serbia. Two years have passed since the killing of Kosovo Police officer Afrim Bunjaku, and despite promises that the perpetrators would face justice, justice has still not been served. This clear impunity is unacceptable,\u201d the Embassy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 24, 2023, a group of armed Serbs, led by terrorist Milan Radoi\u010di\u0107, attacked the Kosovo Police. Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed in the attack, and others were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special forces shot and killed three Serbs, while other members of the terrorist group fled toward Serbia through mountain routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group of about 50 people, led by chief terrorist Milan Radoi\u010di\u0107 \u2013 sanctioned by the United States and wanted by local institutions for involvement in murder \u2013 dressed in military uniforms, had taken positions in and around the Banjska Monastery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly a year after the attack, on September 11, the Special Prosecution filed an indictment, naming Radoi\u010di\u0107 as one of the main accused as the leader of the group. According to the indictment, they committed the criminal offense of \u201cCommitting a terrorist act\u201d and the criminal offense of \u201cSerious crimes against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo.\u201d Some of them are also accused of financing the group and money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serbia has still not extradited the Banjska criminals, despite repeated requests from local authorities and several international allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/KosovaPress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German Embassy in Kosovo has called it unacceptable that those responsible for the terrorist attack in Banjska, Zve\u010dan, have still not been brought to justice. The Embassy noted that the person who claimed responsibility for the attack \u2013 Milan Radoi\u010di\u0107 \u2013 continues to live freely in Serbia. \u201cIt is essential that accountability and justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":77014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[3982,6221,1130,6716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77012"}],"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=77012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77015,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77012\/revisions\/77015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}