An international peacekeeper was returned to his country where the authorities charged him with rape committed while serving in Kosovo, the Nato-led mission KFOR said yesterday.
“A KFOR soldier today has been charged with sexual offences by the authorities of his national state,” KFOR said in a press release without citing the peacekeeper’s nationality.
“He is under suspicion to have committed rape, sexual coercion and misuse of his position as a superior in this context,” it said, adding: “The soldier is on the way to his home country.”
According to local media, the defendant is a 37-year-old from Austria, accused of raping four women or coercing them into sexual acts.