By Talha Ozturk
SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina (AA) - Serbia released the former deputy chairman of the Serbian List Party on Wednesday after he was detained the previous day for admitting he alone planned an attack that resulted in the death of a police officer in the conflict in northern Kosovo.
Serbian authorities announced that Milan Radoicic was released on the condition of judicial control, banned from entering Kosovo and his passport issued by Serbia was confiscated.
The Belgrade Court said Radoicic is banned from leaving Serbia and ordered to appear at a police station between the 1 and 15 of every month to sign documents.
He was also warned that an arrest warrant could be issued if he violated the prohibitions and obligations.
The Serbian Interior Ministry said Tuesday that Radoicic, who is vice president of a minority political party in Kosovo's northern town of Zvecan, was arrested for up to 48 hours and police from the Criminal Police Directorate searched his apartment and other premises, without specifying locations.
He was later brought before the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in the capital of Belgrade with a criminal complaint.
Fighting broke out in Banjska after a group of armed Serbs blocked a bridge. A shootout erupted when the group opened fire on police.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti claimed that the armed group was led by Radoicic, who later accepted responsibility for the fighting in northern Kosovo village, which caused enormous tensions between the two countries.
"I am informing the public that on September 24, together with my compatriots, I came to the north of Kosovo in the region of Banjska," Radoicic said in a statement, explaining his return to Kosovo to "encourage the people in their resistance to the regime of Albin Kurti."
Radoicic claimed he received no assistance from Belgrade authorities and he did not inform them of his intentions because they had already disagreed on certain issues.