Court releases Radoicic from detention, restricts his movement

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade has rejected a proposal by the local Higher Public Prosecutor's Office to order custody for Milan Radoicic, suspected of committing the criminal offences of association for the purpose of committing criminal acts, illicit production, possession, carrying and distribution of firearms and explosives and serious criminal acts against general safety.

Releasing Radoicic from detention, the court forbade him from leaving his place of residence and he is forbidden from leaving the territory of Serbia as well as from entering the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija without court permission.

The court ordered Radoicic to report to police on every first and every fifteenth day of the month and seized his passport, warning him that he might be placed in custody if he failed to comply with the order.

In Tuesday's hearing before prosecutors, Radoicic, aged 45, denied any wrongdoing.

The prosecutor's office proposed that the preliminary proceedings judge of the Higher Court in Belgrade place the suspect in custody to prevent him from escaping, but the proposal was rejected.

Several as yet unknown persons are under investigation on suspicion of serious criminal offences against general safety.

The investigation order said Radoicic had obtained weapons, ammunition and highly destructive explosives from Tuzla, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, between January 2023 and September 24.

The weapons were delivered in the territory of Belgrade and then transferred and stored by Radoicic on unknown locations in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija, in abandoned buildings and forests.

As the ringleader of a group of several as yet unknown persons, through joint activities and an act against general safety, Radoicic endangered the lives of people in Banjska in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija on September 24, the order said.