Afrim Ismailovic, one of the three gunmen who perpetrated the 2012 Good Friday massacre, has disappeared from the Kosovan authorities, who were supposed to watch over him over the past years.
Ismailovic fled to Kosovo immediately after the killing of four Christian Macedonian youngsters and a middle aged man on the eve of Good Friday 2012, killings which were apparently meant to spark a religious war in the country. Another of the gunmen, Alil Demiri, is also hiding in Kosovo, while Agim Ismailovic, Afrim’s brother, is in Macedonia. All were sentenced to life in prison, along with a number of accomplices, but following the 2015 Colored Revolution they were released with the help of the now disgraced Special Prosecutor’s Office.
Kosovo has for years refused to extradite Afrim Ismailovic and Demiri, citing legal reasons and their involvement in minor court cases there. Recently Kosovo’s Interior Minister pledged to extradite the two Islamists, and this may have contributed to Afrim Ismailovic’s flight.
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