Petkovic wrote to EULEX: We are requesting detailed information about the autopsy of the Serbs killed in Banjska

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, has sent a letter to EULEX in which he requested detailed information regarding the autopsy of the three Serbs killed in Banjska in order to establish all the circumstances of their deaths.

Petkovic has asked for more detailed information since EULEX has announced that a representative of that Mission, in the capacity of an observer, attended the autopsy of the deceased in Banjska on September 24th at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Pristina.

In Petkovic's letter, which was shared with journalists at today's press conference, he requests that EULEX provides the name and qualifications, as well as the professional experience of the representatives of that Mission who attended the autopsies in the capacity of observers, as well as the date and time when the examinations or autopsies started and when they were completed for each deceased individual.

Furthermore, information is requested from EULEX regarding the total number of forensic pathologists, and forensic medicine specialists, who were involved in the examinations, as well as whether there were any other forensic pathologists, and forensic medicine specialists, apart from those on the payroll of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Pristina, involved in the autopsy of each deceased individual, and if so, their names and the basis for their involvement in the process should be provided.

Petkovic has also asked EULEX to provide answers to questions such as whether X-ray and CT scans were performed on each body before examination and autopsy, as well as afterward.

Questions for EULEX include whether, based on the observations and assessments of their representative, forensic pathologists, and forensic medicine specialists, adhered to the recommendations of the Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016), or the Revised UN Manual on Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, and whether they complied with relevant provisions of the Council of Europe's Recommendations on harmonizing medico-legal autopsy rules.

In addition to all this information, Petkovic has requested EULEX to provide its conclusions and reports from each of the autopsies, as well as copies of photographs of all bodies, especially wounds on the bodies, taken during each of the autopsies of the Serbs who died in the village of Banjska.