Tonight, on Christmas Day, Stefan Tomić, an eighteen-year-old young man from Klokot, was attacked while he and his brother were returning from the midnight Christmas liturgy in the Church of St. Peter and Paul.
He was attacked by a group of Albanians, some of whom he recognized as security guards at a local restaurant, according to the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija.
Stefan Tomić suffered injuries to his eye, arm, abdomen and legs, and he was given medical help at a health facility in Vitina. The family reported the case to the police, who interrogated Tomić about the attack until the early hours of the morning.
"And this vicious attack on a Serbian child in Kosovo and Metohija shows the anti-Serb hysteria that reigns in Kosovo and Metohija and how threatened the Serbs are, especially south of the Ibar," the statement of the Office stated.
The boys who were wounded yesterday in Gotovuša near Štrpce, Stefan Stojanović (11) and Miloš Stojanović (21), are fine and recovering. They were shot at without any reason from a moving vehicle.
Less than two hours after the incident, the police confirmed that they had arrested a male suspect, AK (33), and then the Kosovo Defense Minister announced that a KBS member had been arrested. The Kosovo police qualified the shooting as "attempted murder", and the Prosecutor's Office ordered the suspect to be detained.
The barricades that the citizens set up yesterday on the Uroševac-Štrpce highway in the village of Gotovuša, as a sign of protest over the wounding of the boy, were removed today.
The attack was condemned by both Belgrade and Pristina, and representatives of EULEX, OSCE, and the European Parliament.
Due to the wounding of the boy, a protest will be held in Štrpac tomorrow, announced the mayor of this municipality and a high-ranking official of the Serbian List, Dalibor Jevtić.
The protest is scheduled for the same day and at the same time when the opponents of the actions of the Serbian authorities and the Serbian List in the North announced their gathering in Kosovska Mitrovica.
The commissioner of the Movement for the Defense of Kosovo and Metohija, Nebojša Jović, stated earlier that the protest was held in order to raise their voice against the "high treason of Aleksandar Vučić" and the "torture, boasting, uncontrolled enrichment, threats and blackmail" of the Serbian List, and the "most cruel betrayal" and " mining" the base of the Kosovo Police in the north.
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