Petkovic: Kurti's criminalisation of north aimed at justifying anti-Serb violence

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was doggedly trying to find an excuse for violence against the Serbs by criminalising the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

Kurti is deliberately overlooking the fact that, even according to Pristina's official police statistics, the north of Kosovo-Metohija used to be the safest part of the province, Petkovic wrote in a post on the social media network X.

"The deterioration of the security situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija is a direct consequence of Kurti's occupation, and we can see that every day as his phalanxes wreak terror, shoot at Serbs and beat up even our children," Petkovic noted.

Kurti dares not mention that a member of the so-called Kosovo Security Force has shot and wounded brothers Stefan and Milos Stojanovic, that Pristina's special police have shot and wounded Dragisa Galjak, Milan Jovanovic and Srecko Sofronijevic and that three Serbs have been brutally executed at Banjska and that their autopsy results are still being hidden, he added.

"The terror we are talking about is not an incident but a constant characteristic of Kurti's policy," Petkovic noted, adding that more than 500 ethnically-motivated incidents targeting the Serbs, the Serbian Orthodox Church or their property had been registered in Kosovo-Metohija since Kurti's rise to power.