Lawyer Mitrovic: Dalibor Spasic was detained for two days without legal grounds

The defense attorney of Dalibor Spasic, who was sentenced to 30 days' detention on June 19 on suspicion of attacking the RTV "21" journalist team, as well as for hooliganism, Srdjan Mitrovic pointed out that Spasic had been in custody for the last two days without legal grounds because, as explained, the Appellate Court had not responded within the legal deadline to the reported appeal on detention.

Lawyer Mitrovic drew the attention of EULEX, which monitored these cases, that on June 21 at 10:25 a.m. he had submitted a complaint to the Appellate Court, which had a statutory deadline of four days to respond to the complaint.

"That deadline expired on June 25, and today is the 27th, so Spasic is being held in prison in Podujevo without a legal basis because the first-instance decision ordering his detention was not justified and is not the final decision. Spasic has been in custody for two days, and there is no basis for that, but the only problem is in the judiciary of Kosovo, which acts in this way in these matters," lawyer Mitrovic said for Kosovo Online.

He adds that in such cases, the judiciary of Kosovo would have to, according to the law, urgently carry out the procedure based on the reported complaint.

"It's a big shortcoming, the Appellate Court has to solve it within four days, we don't have any “weapon” on that issue, except that I could write to the Judicial Council of Kosovo, but the question is whether they would read it," Mitrovic said.

Dalibor Spasic, a medical technician from Kosovska Mitrovica, was arrested on June 17 in Jarinje while returning from central Serbia with his minor daughter and wife.

On June 19, the Basic Court in Mitrovica ordered Dalibor Spasic, who is suspected of attacking the RTV "21" journalist team, to be detained for 30 days, as well as for hooliganism due to his participation in the protests, his lawyer Srdjan Mitrovic said at the time.

Emphasizing that he is convinced of Spasic's innocence, Mitrovic said that the video from the Kallxo portal had been used in court as crown evidence, which showed a journalist whose phone had never fallen out of his hand.

"You see, I watched that video a dozen times, you can see that Spasic was not the one who hit him on the hand, on the phone," Mitrovic said at the time.