Bogdanovic calls on Eulex role in Kosovo Serb murder probe

He asked Yves de Kermabon to "make sure that yet another horrible crime does not go unpunished".

"I officially appeal to you to take decisive action, to use your authorities and play a special and leading role in conducting the investigation in this case and also to keep us posted on the results and actions taken," Bogdanovic said in his letter to Kermabon.

"You will thereby demonstrate your unbiased and status-neutral position, stop the politicization and doubts and prevent yet another horrible crime from going unpunished," the minister stressed.

"You have publicly condemned that 'heinous crime'," Bogdanovic reminded Kermabon and requested from him that the investigation be conducted by a legitimate unbiased group, explaining that numerous crimes against the Serbs, which have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Kosovo Police Service (KPS), remain unresolved.

"On the one hand, there are numerous serious crimes and murders committed against the Serbs since 1999, while on the other, the fact is that all those cases have been transferred to the KPS. The result of that, obviously, is that there are no results," the minister noted.

Bogdan and Trajanka Petkovic were found dead in their home in the village of Partes, near Gnjilane, on Aug. 7. The investigation has shown that they were murdered by a firearm. Suspects or a motive for the attack are at present unknown.