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Kosovo's Interior Minister: We cannot retreat from criminals

2023-06-24 13:30:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

The Minister of the Interior of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, has accused the Serbian president, Aleksandër Vucic, of trying to destabilize Kosovo through, as he said, criminal groups.

He has said that he will ask the Government of Kosovo that the organizations, Civil Defense and Severna Brigade, be declared terrorist organizations, so that the Kosovo authorities can fight them more efficiently.

He said that members of the Serbian community, arrested in recent weeks in Kosovo, are "criminals who have been tolerated and amnestied in the past".

Among those arrested from the ranks of the Serbian community are: Dushan Obrenovic, Radosh Petrovic, Millun Millenkovic-Llune, Dalibor Spasic, Urosh Vukasinovic, Nemanja Vlashkovic, Millan Bozhovic and Slagjan Trajkovic.

According to the Kosovo authorities, they were arrested for actions against the constitutional order, as well as for attacks on members of the Kosovo Police, members of the NATO mission in Kosovo, KFOR, and journalists, during reports in the north of the country.

In a media conference with journalists from South Mitrovica, Sveçla said that Kosovo will not back down from criminals.

"The rule of law is a priority for us. We are acting according to the law. All these police actions, the arrests that are being made, prove that we cannot back down from criminals, and we remain committed to solving all attacks and protecting all citizens, without distinction."

Commenting on the Kosovo operation in the north on June 23, where a car with Belgrade license plates was confiscated, with weapons and explosive devices, Sveçla said the Kosovo Police and the Kosovo Intelligence Agency prevented a terrorist attack.

On June 24, in another press conference, the head of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, said that the Kosovo authorities "planted" the weapons found in the north of Kosovo, and that they were confiscated there. the past by Albanians and Serbs.

However, Sveçla said that some of the weapons found are from 2021, and not "remaining from the last war in Kosovo".

Sweden has called on the international community to condemn, as he said, the terrorist behavior of Serbia towards Kosovo.

Tensions in the north of Kosovo have been high since May 26.

On that day, the new Albanian mayors of the municipalities in the north - inhabited by a majority of Serbs - entered the municipal buildings, with the help of Kosovo Police units.

The local Serbs have opposed something like this and as a result there have been continuous protests.

The international community has called on Kosovo and Serbia to urgently take measures to reduce tensions./ REL