The Foreign Ministry of Kosovo said on Thursday that the Serbian authorities have given permission for the removal of the dead body of the citizen of Kosovo, Faton Hajrizi, who was killed in Loznica, Serbia on July 19.
A day earlier (July 18) he had killed a Serbian policeman and wounded another in the town of Loznica in western Serbia, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in circumstances that are still unclear.
“The lawyer of the Hajrizi family, Arianit Koci, supported by the Liaison Office of Kosovo in Serbia, Ambassador Jashari, are carrying out the procedures to retrieve the dead body of the citizen of Kosovo from the mortuary of Lloznica to be brought to Kosovo”, it is stated in the announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Serbian authorities arrested after the murder three people who are thought to have helped Faton Hajrizi, while they warned that they will ask the German authorities to hand over Artan Hajrizi, expressing the belief that he helped his brothers by sending his documents to them enabled escape.
Artan Hajrizi told the media in Kosovo that the documents were stolen by his brother.
Faton Hajrizi escaped from a prison in Kosovo on July 6.
The authorities in Kosovo called after the murder not to give political overtones to the case.
The killing sparked debate in Kosovo. The Special Prosecutor's Office interviewed the Minister of Justice, Albulena Haxhiu, after her post on the Facebook network on July 20 in which she raised allegations that the Serbian authorities had a hand in the escape of some convicts from Kosovo prisons.
Authorities say that since 2007, 56 people have escaped from Kosovo's prisons.
