Kosovo police have arrested three persons suspected of terrorism in an operation conducted in collaboration with authorities in Germany.
Police in Kosovo on Friday said they had arrested three suspects in relation to terrorism in Prizren and Skenderaj/Srbica.
“During this operation … three persons have been accompanied to the Directorate of Terrorism … based on suspicion that they have committed criminal offences against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo, related to terrorism,” the police reported.
They said the operation was conducted in coordination with the German authorities, after they implemented an international warrant arrest against a suspect known as B.B., issued by Pristina Basic Court.
During the operation, police said they seized an AK 47, ammunition, a car with international licence plates, binoculars and some electronic devices.
The prosecution placed the suspects in custody for 48 hours.
A report published in January by the EU agency for police cooperation, Europol, on the terrorist threat in the EU, said the return home of foreign terrorist fighters, FTFs, was one of main threats to the security of the Western Balkans.
The report noted that none of the Western Balkan countries had reported acts of jihadist terrorism on their territories in 2017.
“Kosovo reported a decline in jihadist propaganda activities and no apparent cases of financial or logistical support of terrorist groups. The country shares its concerns about the possibility of returning FTFs from the conflict areas with EU and non-EU countries,” it said.
In 2017, it added, Kosovo authorities initiated 54 cases of suspicion of participation in terrorist activities in Iraq and Syria.
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