Kosovo-based "Nazi" behind the attack on Serb security forces
Serbian security forces have focused the investigation of the recent terror attacks in Presevo on a group led by Lirim Jakupi, also known as "Nazi".
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, July 23, 2009
According to available information, Jakupi and members of his group are located in Kosovo, near Gnjilane, the Belgrade daily Politika has reported.
The paper's source states that there is reliable evidence that Jakupi was responsible for the attacks, but it is unknown whether he directly participated or sent members of his group to ambush the Gendarmerie members and to set off a bomb outside a block of flats in Preševo.
Four people were injured in the two incidents, including two Gendarmerie members, and a woman and a boy, both ethnic Albanians.
According to preliminary reports, Jakupi's group only wanted to show that they were still active, but also to draw Gendarmerie members into a broader campaign that would cause the local Albanian population to revolt.
Jakupi was last heard of in summer 2007, when he escaped from the custody of Macedonian police at Sar mountain at the Serbian-Macedonian border.
He is on the official terrorist list of both the US and the EU.
