Lawyer Mitrovic: Kosovo authorities will deport Milojevic, we will appeal the decision

The Kosovo authorities will deport Mladen Milojevic, a Serb from Leposavic employed as a police officer in Raska, who was arrested last night at Jarinje, his lawyer Srđan Mitrovic confirmed for Kosovo Online.

According to Mitrovic, he received a decision from the Kosovo Directorate for Migration and Foreigners ordering Milojevic’s deportation from Kosovo.

"The decision refers to Article 24 of the Law on Citizenship, which requires individuals to notify Kosovo authorities if they are employed in the security services of a foreign country. This is the reason Milojevic was stripped of his citizenship and why the deportation was ordered," said Mitrovic.

He added that no one was previously aware of this provision or that such information had to be reported to the authorities.

"We will appeal the decision; we have an eight-day deadline to do so. However, our appeal does not postpone the execution of the decision, meaning my client will be deported shortly. He has also received a five-year ban on entering Kosovo, which we will contest before the Administrative Court. We will exhaust all legal avenues and hope that at least the entry ban will be reduced," the lawyer stated.

Mitrovic explained that Milojevic was detained at Jarinje and questioned as a witness while handcuffed, which violated the protocol.

"He wasn’t even allowed to inform his family of his whereabouts. We learned through the Kosovo Police in the north that he had been taken to Pristina. His mother accompanied me there. He also has a wife with whom he lives in Leposavic. The entire process took hours before we were handed the official decision," Mitrovic said.

Kosovo Online has also learned that Kosovo authorities will deport Aleksandar Mirkovic from Partes.
As a reminder, the Kosovo police deported Nikola Vujovic, a member of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior from Zubin Potok, via the Merdare crossing. He was also arrested last night at Brnjak.

The Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, stated that the authorities in Pristina, acting on the direct orders of Kosovo’s caretaker Prime Minister Albin Kurti, detained three members of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior and one retired police officer at border crossings last night and this morning—without any legal grounds or justification, as he put it—purely as a politically motivated act of retaliation against the Serbian people.