Who are the accused in the attack in Banjska who were seen near the Serbian Presidency?

2025-07-01 08:46:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Who are the accused in the attack in Banjska who were seen near the Serbian

Some of the people whom the Kosovo Special Prosecution charged with the attack in Banjska i Zve?an - or at least one of them - and who are wanted by Kosovo authorities, were seen at a protest surrounded by police in central Belgrade.

Official Pristina says that the people accused of the September 24, 2023 attack were seen on June 28 in the Pioneer Park in Belgrade, opposite the office of Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i?.

But, there has been no reaction from the Serbian state authorities yet.

Using facial recognition tools, Radio Free Europe was able to determine that the group included Vladimir Vu?eti? from North Mitrovica, who is one of 45 people indicted by the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office.

However, based on public information in Serbia, he is not charged with this criminal offense.

Radio Free Europe, based on images from social media, managed to identify at least 11 people gathered in several groups, whose members were wearing identical green shirts.

According to available photos and videos, these groups were standing near the Serbian Presidency building and near police units.

Two protests with opposite goals

On June 28, a protest organized by students in the blockade was held in Belgrade.

According to estimates by the Archive of Public Gatherings, around 140,000 people gathered in Slavija Square, demanding the announcement of extraordinary elections and the removal of the so-called "Qacillend".

We are talking about a tent camp that was set up three months ago in Pioneer Park, about a kilometer from Slavija Square.

On the other side of this park is the Presidency of Serbia.

The camp is home to several students who "want to learn" and who are demanding the reopening of faculties, which have been blocked for seven months by protesting students.

Their blockade began after the collapse of a shelter at the Novi Sad Railway Station, resulting in the deaths of 16 people.

The group in Pioneer Park was also joined by several former members of the "Red Berets" - a formation disbanded due to links to the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003.

Over time, the area was surrounded by metal fences and placed under police protection.

While the crowd blocked Slavija Square and the roads leading there, supporters of the regime in Pioneers Park organized a "literary evening".

They were joined by key leaders of Vu?i?'s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), including Vu?i? himself at one point.

Among them were Dragoslav Bokan, former leader of the paramilitary group "Beli Orlovi", and Goran Radosavljevic Guri, former police general, who is linked to the murder of the Bytyçi brothers - two American citizens, originally from Kosovo - in 1999.

But, they were not the only ones.

Young people in green shirts

While Serbian opposition politician Gjorgje Miketi? shared a photo of three men on the social network X and asked if they were people from Banjska, some Albanian-language media reported that among the groups in Pioneers Park were four people accused by the Kosovo Special Prosecution for terrorism and serious crimes against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo.

The indictment was filed for the attack on the Kosovo Police, on September 24, 2023, in Banjska - the northern part of Kosovo - where Kosovo Police officer Afrim Bunjaku was killed.

In the armed clashes that followed, three more Serb attackers were killed.

The group, by his own admission, was led by Milan Radoi?i?, who was previously known as a businessman from Kosovo.

Radoi?i? and several members of the group that carried out the attack, after armed clashes, retreated to Serbian territory.

Using facial recognition tools, Radio Free Europe was able to determine that the group included Vladimir Vu?eti?, from North Mitrovica, who is one of 45 people indicted by the Kosovo Prosecutor's Office.

He is in the photos published on social networks, which Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty determined were taken on June 28 near Pioneers Park.

Vu?eti?, by the way, has an open profile on Facebook, where he often posts photos with his family, from the gym or the cafe.

On his social media, he is seen wearing the same green shirt. But in 2010, for example, he was also seen wearing a jacket with symbols of Obraz - an ultra-right-wing organization that Serbia's Constitutional Court banned in 2012, due to, as it was said, discrimination against minorities and the spread of hate speech.

Seven years earlier, the Serbian Ministry of Interior labeled Obraz a clerico-fascist organization.

Of the 45 accused by Kosovo authorities, only three members of the group are currently on trial in Kosovo.

Vu?eti? and most of the other defendants are at large and an arrest warrant has been issued for them by Interpol.

Silence in Serbia, while Kurti accuses

Regarding the claims that the group included three other wanted persons, Milorad Jevtic Micko, Zarko Cvetkovic and Vukasin Jaredic, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was unable to find independent evidence based on forensic tools.

REL asked the Serbian Ministry of Interior whether it had identified the people who were with the police brigade, and what measures it had taken regarding the international arrest warrant for Vu?eti? and others - issued by Interpol in December 2023, at the request of Kosovo. However, by the time of publication of this article, it had not received a response.

The outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, reiterated on June 30 that the people accused of the attack in Banjska should be extradited to Kosovo.

"Now, the same people are closer to the president of Serbia [Aleksandar Vu?i?] than his security. This shows that we were right when we said that this criminal and terrorist group is led and financed by Belgrade and that it is not a group of hooligans. These are people who were trained in Serbia, received orders from there and committed aggression against Kosovo," Kurti told reporters.

Police officer Afrim Bunjaku was killed in the attack, while police officers Alban Rashiti, Çlirim Shaqiri, Mirsad Kryeziu and Sedat Dushi were injured.

According to the indictment, the attack lasted until 3:00 p.m., "when the vast majority of the group fled through the mountain roads towards the Republic of Serbia."

The indictment states that they were "professionally trained" and that they had entered Kosovo illegally from Serbia, through mountain roads, in dozens of vehicles, some of which were armored and loaded with heavy weapons, ammunition, rocket launchers, explosives, camouflage military uniforms and other military logistical equipment.

According to the indictment, from January 1, 2017, to September 24, 2023, when the attack in Banjska took place, Radoi?i? indirectly secured income, most of which was used for heavy weapons, military uniforms, logistical support and payment of group participants./ Rel