Three accused have pleaded not guilty regarding the terrorist attack in Banjska that occurred on September 23, 2023.

Blagoje Spasojevic, Vladimir Tolic and Dusan Maksimovic said at the court hearing that they are innocent of the charges against them. After the statement of the three, the session finished.

Initially in the session, the special prosecutor, Naim Abazi, while reading the indictment, said that the accused led by Milan Radoičić, all this with the aim of seriously destabilizing and destroying the basic political, constitutional, economic and social structures of the Republic of Kosovo.

“In various roles, starting from the role of road blocker, professionally trained, where most of the group, having entered the territory of the Republic of Kosovo illegally through the mountain roads in an organized manner from the Republic of Serbia, with dozens of vehicles, some of them even armored, filled with heavy weapons, ammunition, rocket launchers, explosives, camouflaged military uniforms and military logistics equipment, they initially blocked the road to the village bridge with two trucks, then they hid and took their positions and after the police officers of the Republic of Kosova came to remove the trucks and clear the road,  at that moment they attacked them with explosives and heavy weapons, in which case the police official Afrim Bunjaku was killed at the bridge of the village, as well as the police officer Alban Rashiti was injured and other police officers Çlirim Shaqiri, Mirsad Kryeziu, Sedat Dushi were injured, this attack which continued until 15:00 when the vast majority of this group fled towards the mountain roads to the Republic of Serbia. All this in order to seriously destabilize and destroy the basic political, constitutional, economic and social structures of the Republic of Kosovo, with this there is a well-founded suspicion that they have committed the criminal offense, “Committing a terrorist offense”, it was said in the indictment.

Further, the indictment states that ‘the three accused, acting according to preparations and a well-organized plan in advance, through the use of violence with heavy weapons, have tried to separate the northern part of the territory of the Republic of Kosovo, respectively the municipalities inhabited by Serb majority and to join this part of the territory to the Republic of Serbia, in which case, as a result of the violence used, the police officer Afrim Bunjaku died and the lives of other police officers and the civilian population were endangered.

With these actions, there is a well-founded suspicion that the accused have committed the criminal offense, “Serious offenses against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo”.