(5 Jan 2017)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci on Thursday described the detention of Kosovo's former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj as "unacceptable" and "unjustifiable."
Haradinaj, a former guerrilla fighter in Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia, was detained Wednesday at the Basel airport on the border with Switzerland and Germany on a Serbian warrant.
Ardian Gjini, the Vice President of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), accused Serbia of "trying to destabilise Kosovo."
Haradinaj is facing possible extradition to Serbia to face war crimes charges.
The former guerrilla fighter is scheduled to appear Thursday in a court in Colmar in eastern France.
The court will decide whether to keep him in custody during extradition proceedings or release him under judicial supervision, according to court official Marie-Helene Calvano.
Calvano said that at an unspecified later date, the court would decide on whether to approve extradition.
Haradinaj was cleared of war crimes charges in two lengthy trials by a UN war crimes tribunal.
But Serbia accuses him of committing war crimes including kidnappings, torture and killings against Serb civilians when he was a senior rebel commander in western Kosovo during the 1998-99 war.


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