„First, something is seized and put at the disposal of someone, and then later, after almost a year, a regulation is passed that regulates this“, legal expert Dragutin Nenezić commented on the new decisions of the Kosovo government. „All in all, the north is today under some kind of police occupation,“ he alleged.
On Wednesday, at the 214th session, the government in Pristina unanimously adopted a proposal to amend the Administrative Instruction on the methods and procedures for leasing real estate and movable property that has been seized and confiscated.
The proposal regulates the right of the Agency for Administration of Sequestered or Confiscated Assets to lease confiscated property – free of charge, if requested by a public institution.
This is exactly what happened with Milan Radoičić’s villa on Lake Gazivode, which was confiscated after the conflict in the village of Banjska last September.
At the same session, a request was also adopted to transfer the plots of land in the cadastral zones of Jasenovik and Čečevo, owned by the Kosovo Forestry Agency, to the Kosovo Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Another step towards the police occupation of the north
In a statement for KoSSev, legal expert Dragutin Nenezić assesses that it is clear that this is a continuation of the process started with expropriation, which legalizes bases in the north.
„This time their job is certainly easier because it involves forest land managed by the Forestry Agency, but I do not rule out the possibility that due to cadastre inconsistencies, they may indirectly expropriate land owned by individuals. In any case, this is another step toward the formal completion of the police occupation of the north,“ he stressed.
Commenting on the decision to amend the Administrative Instruction and the confiscation of Milan Radoičić’s villa, Nenezić emphasizes the special treatment Pristina shows when it comes to the north.
„Here, I am primarily interested in how advocates of the rule of law act regarding the north. First, something is seized and made available to someone, and then, almost a year later, a regulation is passed to legitimize this. Everything confiscated after Banjska, including this property and Rajska Banja, was essentially transferred to the police forces as the enforcers in the north, so this is merely a formality. Ultimately, the north is being handed over to the police, initially de facto and now formally, first through expropriation and now through property confiscation,“ Nenezić points out.
Resistance in the north has been crushed
Concluding that the north is under „some form of police administration,“ he views both government decisions as models of how such police administration is legally devised and implemented.
Nenezić also reveals that he believes this situation will not change in the near future.
„Like everything the current authorities are doing, there are numerous legal inconsistencies and flaws, which provide grounds for legal challenges, albeit within the narrow and often biased framework of the Kosovo judicial system. Unfortunately, the mood among Serbs is at such a low point that there is practically no one who can speak out and legally oppose this. I believe this is the greatest tragedy – that the resistance for which the north was known has been crushed, both by Pristina’s violence and Belgrade’s inaction,“ Nenezić concluded for KoSSev.
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