Popovic just stepped foot in Serbia: I stand behind the words about the KLA that I said in Rahovec, I made no agreement

Popovic just stepped foot in Serbia: I stand behind the words about the KLA that I said in Rahovec, I made no agreements

The assistant director of the so-called Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Igor Popovic, was deported from Kosovo today after the Basic Court in Pristina fined him 3 euros and banned him from entering the country for two years.

Popovic was arrested on July 18 at the Brnjak border crossing for a statement made during a memorial service in Rahovec, where he accused the Kosovo Liberation Army of crimes against Serbs. He was held in custody and faced indictment by the Special Prosecution for the criminal offense of “inciting discord and intolerance.”

Although the court stated that Popovic had reached a plea agreement, he himself denied this in a statement to Kosova Online, calling justice in Kosovo “politically instrumentalized.”

“I just crossed the administrative border. A difficult period is over, but nothing is worse than what other Serbs who are imprisoned by God’s justice are going through. Let’s be clear right away, there is no agreement here with Kurti’s judiciary, because I do not accept any guilt for what I said,” Popovic said.

He said he stands by his statements in Rahovec, where he had described KLA members as “terrorists” and accused the Kosovo justice system of political persecution.

“This process is only a consequence of pressure from the politically instrumentalized judiciary in Pristina and as such has no force,” he stressed.

At the end of his statement, Popovic thanked Serbia, the so-called Office for Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, as well as his family and supporters.