Serbian Teen’s Trial in Kosovo Is Stalled

A mentally disabled Serbian teenager jailed 11 months ago on a genocide charge must spend at least 18 more days in a Kosovo prison awaiting a verdict on a lesser charge of causing public danger. The trial of Vladimir Vucetic, 17, finally began but was adjourned until Sept. 12. Vucetic was charged last September with genocide after an ethnic Albanian woman said he was among a group of Serbian men who set fire to three houses. The charge was later reduced. In another decision, the U.N.’s Bernard Kouchner ordered Afrim Zeqiri, an ethnic Albanian, detained for a second 30-day period though a Finnish judge had ruled that there was insufficient evidence to commit Zeqiri to trial on charges of murdering three Serbs.