The Basic Court of Prishtina has given today the decision for the Montenegrin citizen Risto Jovanovic who was arrested on the day of Vidovdan in Gazimestan, according to the prosecution for the criminal offense, incitement to hatred.
Judge Vlora Pacolli sentenced Risto Jovanovic to six months in prison, but he agreed to pay 6,700 euros for this six-month sentence to avoid imprisonment.
It was further decided to extradite him from Kosovo to Montenegro and he was banned from entering Kosovo for five years.
Justifying the decision, the judge of the Basic Court in Prishtina, Vlora Pacolli, said that Jovanovic was convicted after being heard shouting “Kill the shipman”, “We will wash Kosovo with blood”, “Kosovo is Serbia”.
The pejorative term ‘Albanian’ is considered politically incorrect and with offensive content in the Serbian language for Albanians.
Jovanovic has said he is not guilty of the charges against him.
Montenegrin Ambassador to Kosovo Mirsad Bibovic was part of the hearing on Wednesday when Jovanovic was sentenced in Pristina.
Earlier, Montenegro’s ruling Democratic Front party called on the Montenegrin government to “demand his immediate release from its partner country, Kosovo”.
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic has said that if Jovanovic is not the perpetrator, he should be released immediately.
