Filipovic: Young Montenegrins arrested for writing "Kosovo is Serbia" released

Three Montenegrin citizens who were arrested near the Visoki Decani Monastery on November 24 for writing "Kosovo is Serbia" on their license plates have been released, their lawyer Jovana Filipovic confirmed to Kosovo Online.
Filipovic stated that she could confirm at this time that the young men had been released from custody, without further details.
The three young men, Rajko Krivokapic (34), Marinko Jovanovic (24) and Dragutin Lalatovic (24), were arrested in late November after celebrating the monastery's slava in Visoki Decani.
As announced at the time by the Kosovo Police, its members came across a car with Montenegrin license plates in a parking lot near the monastery, which read "Kosovo is Serbia", after which they arrested the three young men for "inciting hatred".
They were sentenced to one month in detention on two occasions, the second time until January 23.
Filipovic previously stated that they did not incite hatred and intolerance, which is what the prosecution is charging them with, noting that this act is "exclusively intended for members of the Serbian nationality, who allegedly commit it against members of the Albanian population".
She also explained that the young men had a sticker on the frames of their license plates that read "Kosovo is Serbia", but which was covered with another tape, so it could not be seen.
"Their car was parked in the parking lot in front of the Visoki Decani monastery and it is not known how the sticker came to be peeled off. So it remains for the competent authorities to determine how it happened and who is really to blame for the tape with which the inscription was covered - being peeled off", Filipovic said about a month and a half ago.
The arrest of the three young men has prompted reactions from the Serb List, the Eparchy of Budimlje-Niksic, and representatives of the Montenegrin government.
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