CRIMINAL CONFIDENT: Return to Kosovo by the end of the week

Former Hague accused and president of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj will come again tomorrow before a French court in Colmar. Haradinaj said for the RSE that he believes the court will bring his case to an end next week and that he will be able to return to Kosovo.

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- So far we waited for the for the case from Serbia. The court called me to answer to the court in Colmar where the indictment was sent from Serbia. So, this is where we are with the procedures. We will ask for hearing immediately to consider the case, ie, we will reject the accusations and their request for extradition which is entirely political - said Haradinaj, who is currently on probation until the decision is made.

Foto: Tanjug/AP

Haradinaj said that Serbia's behavior towards him is a "political game" shortly before the presidential elections, governed in Belgrade.

- Serbia played with the time and was late with submission of materials to stall this process. But, the case is in front of court now and i believe that all time limits will be respected to end this process. It is a case form 2004, fabricated by Milosevic and the remains of the justice system in Belgrade - said Haradinaj, and reminded that the same case existed in Hague tribunal and the prosecution marked it as irrelevant.

Haradinaj repeated that Brussels dialogue about normalization of relations more in favor of the leaders than people and added that Kosovo needs common platform for dialogue which would include mutual recognition. 

Foto: Tanjug/Marina Maksimović

Haradinaj, who was leader of the opposition Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, was arrested on January 4, at the border of Switzerland and France after the Serbian arrest warrant.

The investigation against Haradinaj was launched in 2004, he was tried at the Hague war crimes tribunal, but in 2012 was acquitted of all charges.

Serbia seeks Haradinaj on suspicion that he had committed the offenses of war crimes against civilians in Kosovo and Metohija in 1998 and 1999, and Belgrade has announced the acts that were not the subject of the trial at the Hague Tribunal.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)