French police detain former Prime Minister Kosovo

paris - French police on Wednesday, the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj arrested on the basis of a Serbian arrest warrant in 2004. Serbia considers Haradinaj, who was a key guerrilla commander during the uprising of 1998, as a war criminal. However, the Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague spoke to him in the past, twice free.

Kosovo, where many ethnic Albanians live, declared himself in 2008 with Western support independent. Before that Haradinaj was prime minister for two years. The current government will be detained at the French airport Basel-Mulhouse ridiculous. 'That is unacceptable for us', stated the Foreign Minister.

Haradinaj, who was on a flight from Pristina, was already arrested in Slovenia in 2015. Two days later he was free again after some diplomatic pressure. France and Kosovo have good relations. Paris is still a major supporter of the latest European nation.