Serb bus driver and his father beaten up
Igor Arsic, a bus driver of an Arsa Prevoz vehicle carrying 40 Serbian passengers from Gracanica to Kosovska Mitrovica, was beaten up along with his father Vido on Monday morning around 7.30 a.m. and taken to a police station in Pristina.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Doctor Aleksandar Vasic, an orthopedist in the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica, where both men received medical treatment, stated that the victims were beaten up and have probably suffered a brain concussion.
Vido Arsic said that after they had set off from Gracanica on Monday morning to Mitrovica, a vehicle blocked their way and his son Igor blew the bus horn trying to warn the man to move.
A Kosovo Police Service (KPS) officer, who was standing nearby, approached and asked Ivan why he was blowing the horn, and the latter replied that he was trying to warn the vehicle which had blocked his way. At that moment, the officer started hitting him.
"Then, a Golf vehicle came by and four armed civilians came out of it and started beating my son and me. The women and children in our bus were very frightened. The police came and took us to a police station to take our statements. They kept us there about an hour or so, and after that we were offered an escort to Mitrovica," Vido Arsic said.
