Oliver Ivanovic

Minister Bratislav Gai said that the authorities know who killed Oliver Ivanovic and that the killer is in Germany, and that he is currently under the protection of the German authorities.

Testifying via video link from Serbia at Pristina Basic Court on Friday, Milena Popovic, the widow of murdered Kosovo Serb opposition politician Oliver Ivanovic, said her husband did not voice any concerns about his safety before he was shot dead in the north of the ethnically-divided city of Mitrovica in January 2018.

Milena Popovic, the widow of Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, who was shot dead outside his party's office in January 2018, has asked the Pristina Basic Court to make it possible for her to testify from Serbia, saying she was frightened because of the political situation in Kosovo, the presiding judge in the case said on Tuesday.

Members of the Serbian parliament, from both the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, and opposition, came into physical conflict during a debate about the former province of Kosovo and a European proposal to resolve Serbia-Kosovo relations.

Chief State Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi said on Wednesday evening that the arrest warrant for Milan Radoicic, suspected of being one of the heads of a criminal organsiation that murdered political party leader Oliver Ivanovic in January 2018, was withdrawn for "technical and tactical reasons" but insisted that "the criminal case against him continues".

Relatives of murdered Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic urged the Serbian Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime on Wednesday to investigate new allegations about people who allegedly ordered, organised and carried out the assassination in 2018.

A witness at the trial for the 2018 killing of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic told Pristina Basic Court on Monday that he lived in constant fear for his life for years because of threats from people linked to the Belgrade-backed Kosovo Serb political party Srpska Lista.

Two witnesses at the trial for the 2018 killing of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic at the Pristina Basic Court on Tuesday showed reluctance to confirm previous testimonies they gave to the prosecution in which they named alleged members of organised criminal groups that operate in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo.

In a movie-like scene, a powerful Belgrade-backed politician and businessman, Milan Radoicic, escaped arrest on Thursday at the Brnjak crossing point between Kosovo and Serbia.

Valon Kurtaj, head of the judging panel in the trial of defendants accused of involvement in the 2018 assassination of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic, told Pristina Basic Court on Tuesday that the court is facing a series of difficulties in contacting witnesses who live in Serb-majority parts of Kosovo and in Serbia itself.