Photo: TanjugAfter the arrest of former Kosovo police officer Dejan Pantić, Serbs blocked several roads and set up barricades in the north of Kosovo. The Kosovo police closed the Jarinje administrative crossing for security reasons. Pantić is charged with terrorism by Kosovo institutions
In several locations in the northern part of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbs set up barricades as a sign of protest against the arrest of former member of the Kosovo police, Dejan Pantić. In the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečani, a state of emergency was announced by sirens. A smaller number of members of the Kosovo Police are deployed in Bošnjačka Mahala and in the Tri Solitera settlement, and EULEX vehicles patrol the city, reports RTS.
The Kosovo police announced that some roads were blocked in the municipalities of Leposavić, Zvečan and Zubin Potok, and that they temporarily closed the Jarinje administrative crossing to traffic for security reasons.
Members of KFOR are observing all this and are ready to intervene if necessary.
Sirens and barricades
The panic among Serbs began when sirens sounded in Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvečan at 15 p.m. Radio Kontakt plus reported that barricades were set up in several locations in the north of Kosovo, among others in Rudar and Leposavic.
Roads are blocked by trucks. Dozens of citizens took to the streets in Rudar, the passage was blocked by six ambulances with their sirens on. Dragiša Milović, the mayor of Zvečan until recently, was also present.
Intimidation of Serbs
The director of the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, assessed that the arrest of former member of the Kosovo police from North Mitrovica, Dejan Pantić, was "brutal retaliation against Aljbin Kurti and intimidation".
Pantić, who left the Kosovo police together with his colleagues of Serbian nationality on November 5, was arrested today by former colleagues of Albanian nationality at the Jarinje administrative crossing when he was returning from Raška with his wife. Handcuffed, he was taken to a nearby police station.
"Kurti, without any basis or evidence, is trying to attribute to former Serbian police officers acts that they have nothing to do with," said Petković, adding that it was a "brutal application of force, retaliation and intimidation", about which he also informed the EU envoy Miroslav Lajčak, and will also inform all relevant international representatives.
Terrorist, terrorism and extremist groups
Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo Dželjalj Svećlja claims that Pantić is the organizer of the attack on the premises of the election commission in the north of Kosovo.
"According to the evidence of the Kosovo Police, the detainee organized a terrorist attack on the premises of the CEC in the north of the country when CEC officials and policemen were attacked," Svećlja said and specified that the "DP" was accused of "a terrorist act and an attack on the constitutional order."
And as for the barricades in the North of Kosovo: "extremist groups" are at work, which with the aim of "preventing the administration of justice" organized the blockade of certain roads and set up barricades in Leposavić, Zvečan and Zubin Potok, Svećlja wrote on Facebook.
Postponed extraordinary local elections
The President of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, announced that the elections for mayors of northern municipalities, which were scheduled for December 18, will be postponed to April 2023 due to increased security risks.
Osmani stated at the press conference that there is a complete consensus of the political parties for this decision and that the report that was sent yesterday to the presidency of the Central Election Commission was taken into account.
And she added: "In order to ensure the greatest possible participation of citizens in these elections, observation of domestic and international institutions, security for all citizens without distinction, as well as enough time for the security institutions to make an effort and take additional actions to establish law and order in the north, I think that the postponement is necessary".
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