Criminal Police Directorate officers have searched Milan Radoicic’s apartment and other properties and he has been placed in 48-hour detention.

Radoicic was taken to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade along with a criminal complaint.

Several days ago Milan Radoicic responded to the summons of the Serbian state bodies. It was said at the time that the case would be handed to the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office.

In a written statement read out by his lawyer, Milan Radoicic accepted responsibility for the events in Banjska, denying any involvement of the Serbian authorities.

Armed clashes broke out last weekend between a group of Serbs, led by former deputy leader of the Belgrade-backed Serb List Milan Radoicic, and the Kosovo Police in the Banjska village in northern Kosovo. One Kosovo police officer and three Serbs were killed.