Last May, Kosovo Serbs clashed with members of the International Security Forces in Kosovo, which subsequently led to the amputation of one of the limbs of a Hungarian soldier.
A court in Pristina on Tuesday sentenced two Kosovo Serbs to six months in prison for attacking soldiers of KFOR, the Kosovo peacekeeping force operating under NATO command, last May, MTI reported.
Kosovo police and international security forces in Kosovo clashed with local Serbs in May after Serbs dissatisfied with the results of municipal elections obstructed the work of the new mayors. A number of civilians and 27 Hungarian soldiers from the Kosovo Force were also injured during the clashes. In response to the tensions, NATO increased its forces in Kosovo.
Rados Petrovic And twelve Obrenovic He pleaded guilty Tuesday after a deal with prosecutors. Obrenović's six-month sentence was included in the time he spent on remand, so he did not have to go to prison, and Petrović (who had previously spent 26 days in prison) was allowed to be released after paying the six thousand. A fine of euros (about 2.33 million Hungarian forints). The two men were originally charged with assaulting the constitutional order, assaulting international persons under international protection, assaulting an official, and rioting, but were charged only in relation to the latter, and a ruling was also handed down in that case. issue.
Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade has refused to recognize this since then and continues to consider the Albanian-majority territory as its southern province. KFOR was established in 1999 after the end of the Serb-Kosovo conflict in order to maintain peace in Kosovo.
