A court in Pristina (Kosovo's capital) has delivered its verdict against three Serbian men — Blagoje Spasojevic, Vladimir Tolic, and Dusan Maksimovic — tried for their roles in a September 2023 armed attack on police in the village of Banjska, in which officer Afrim Bunjaku was killed and another wounded. The men, who pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges and face possible life imprisonment, were among dozens of armed Serbs who prosecutors say ambushed a police patrol with the aim of separating Serb-majority areas of northern Kosovo and uniting them with Serbia. The case carries wider geopolitical weight, as the indictment explicitly implicates the Serbian state in sponsoring the attack — alleging that participants trained at a Serbian military facility and received state-supplied weapons and logistics — claims Belgrade has denied, and which Serbian-linked alleged ringleader Milan Radoicic, who remains free in Serbia, has sought to distance from Belgrade.