The Kosovo court yesterday ordered a one-month detention for five suspects who were arrested last weekend as part of a months-long investigation in which the police seized weapons and explosives.
The prosecutors stated in the statement that the suspects were planning suicide attacks and endangering the "constitutional order" of Kosovo and that they will remain in custody while awaiting trial. The media in Pristina announced that the two suspects had previously traveled to conflict zones in Syria and that all five were followers of militant Islamist groups.
In a document seen by Reuters, the prosecution announced that through surveillance and other secret methods, it discovered that the suspects wanted to buy anti-tank rocket launchers and other weapons "for the purpose of preparing terrorist acts in Kosovo."
Investigators also organized a simulated gun purchase, the document said.
Kosovo police said raids this weekend found an anti-tank rocket launcher, assault rifles, ammunition, rockets, explosives, one drone and money.
The criminal offense of "planning terrorist attacks and endangering the constitutional order of Kosovo and security" is punishable by up to five years in prison, according to Radio Free Europe.
Since 2013, about 300 Kosovars have joined Islamist groups in the wars in Syria and Iraq, and about a hundred of them have been killed there.
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