Detention for Veselinovic, Repic released

Veselinovic and Repic were arrested Monday in Rudare near Zvecan, northern Kosovo, by members of EULEX and the Kosovo police on the suspicion they were involved in last December's attempted murder of Dusan Milisavljevic, deputy director of the Mitrovica North Administrative Office. "The court's decision is quite unusual as Veselinovic got one month of detention for the unlawful possession of a single gun. In the past ten years, no one in Kosovo has spent a month in detention for one gun," defense counsel Ljubomir Pantovic told reporters. He added that the offense in question commands a fine, but that for some unknown reason, the court ordered detention even though it dismissed suspicion of murder. He said lawyer Miodrag Brkljac will appeal the detention ruling. Brkljac told The pres that one of the reasons for the detention is Veselinovic's attempt to run from the police on Friday in Rudare. Immediately following the arrests of Veselinovic and Repic, Serbs blocked the Pristina-Raska road at Rudare. The road has remained blocked since Monday and KFOR and EULEX have not been using it. The locals standing watch at the roadblock are demanding that Repic and Veselinovic be released pending trial. Otherwise they are threatening to block major roads in all four municipalities in northern Kosovo