Nebojsa Vujacic arrested, family seeks govt assistance

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The EULEX police arrested employee of the Post Serbia Nebojsa Vujacic, 48, from Kosovska Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo, on suspicion that he committed the criminal acts of murder, attempted murder and infliction of grave wounds.

EULEX spokesperson Irina Gudeljevic confirmed for Tanjug that the EULEX police arrested Vujacic early on Tuesday on a warrant issued by the international prosecutor of the Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office.

Vujacic was taken down to the EULEX base in Mitrovica for questioning, after which the international judge placed him in a 30-day detention.

Vujacic's family told reporters that Nebojsa is innocent and called on Serbia's authorities to provide adequate protection.

Vujacic is charged with the case reported in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on February 3, 2000, when several apartments inhabited by ethnic Albanians were invaded following an attack on a Serb cafe and a murder and attempted murder were reported.

One of the attacked apartments was owned by Nedzmedin Ajeti, a neighbour of the Vujacic family.

Mother of arrested Nebojsa Rosa Vujacic showed the photographs to Tanjug's correspondent and said that their apartment was damaged in the blast, together with the flat owned by ethnic Albanian neighbours. She underscored that UNMIK judicial bodies acquitted Nebojsa of the crimes he has been charged with in the Tuesday arrest.

The decision adopted by the Mitrovica District Court on August 3, 2002, which the arrestee's mother showed to Tanjug's reporter states that the Trial Chamber concluded that the investigation has to be carried out in the case of one arrestee and called off the proceedings for all other potential suspects, including Vujacic.