(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Prosecutors in the Peja district of western Kosovo say they suspect thattwo of the four men arrested on Saturday near the famous Serbian Orthodox monastery at Decanare connected to the war in Syria.
According to the prosecution when the four appeared in a court in Peja it became clear that one of them had been in the conflict in Syria while another had been sent back from Istanbul while apparently trying to join the conflict.
However the prosecution lacks evidence that the suspects intended to commit a terrorist act and they are being held only for illegal possession of firearms.
Police arrested the four near the monastery alongside KFOR members guarding the historic site.
The suspects maintain that their intention was to go camping in the nearby highlands an area reached by the road that goes by the monastery.
Police said they were tailing the suspects’ vehicle for a while and decided to stop them after they approached the monastery.
Police also said they had no evidence that the suspects were planning a terrorist attack.
Sava Janjic abbot of the Visoki Decani monastery has criticised the police for not treating the incident as terrorism-related.
“The Kosovo police statement is a pathetic downplaying of a possible serious incident and an insult to common sense” Fr Janjic said.