Raskovic: Three police officers beat me, tied me to a tree and demanded a rifle, but I do not have one

Nenad Raskovic, who said he was brutally beaten by the Kosovo Police today, told Kosovo Online that three police officers dragged him out of his family home, after which they tied him to a tree and beat him while demanding that he hand over a rifle that, he said, he does not have.

"Three of them came to my house in Dren today, and when they arrived, they threw me onto the bed and beat me. They demanded a rifle, but I do not have a rifle. After that, they said they would come back at 5 p.m. and that I should have the rifle ready for them," Raskovic said.

He added that they then handcuffed him, took him into the woods and tied him to a beech tree.

"They beat me with a hose and put a cloth over my mouth," he added.

According to Raskovic, throughout the ordeal they kept demanding that he find the rifle and hand it over to them.

"They beat me, but I do not have a rifle," Raskovic said.

He said that they then left him tied up, but later returned and released him.

"They took me down to the road. They left me on the asphalt, and I walked back toward my house. Slowly, slowly. When I got home, the ordeal began. They kept coming into the house, intimidating my son and harassing my wife, saying, 'Do you want us to send you to Albania?' My wife is Albanian," Raskovic told Kosovo Online at the Clinical Hospital Center in Kosovska Mitrovica, where he has been hospitalized.

He added that they had told him they would return to his home tomorrow.

"I do not know what to do," Raskovic said.

Goran Radojevic, a doctor at the Clinical Hospital Center in Kosovska Mitrovica, told Kosovo Online that Nenad Raskovic had been admitted to the hospital with injuries sustained in a physical assault allegedly carried out by members of the Kosovo Police.

Radojevic said that Raskovic underwent a clinical examination upon admission and diagnostic procedures, and that he was currently in the emergency room under the care of an appropriate medical team and receiving appropriate treatment.

"Diagnostic testing is still underway. A body scan is being performed, which will reveal any internal injuries caused by some kind of heavy object. Bruising is clearly visible. There are bruises on his back, chest, and head," Radojevic said.

He added that the injuries were serious and that the patient's further clinical course would depend on the diagnostic findings and his condition.

Radojevic said that the diagnostic process was expected to be completed in approximately two hours.

"He is currently stable and under medical supervision," said Radojevic, an orthopedic surgeon.