Gouillon: Kurti wants ethnically clean Kosovo-Metohija, Serbs face terror

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy Arnaud Gouillon says Serbs living in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija face terror and that there has been a notable surge in the number of anti-Serb attacks since the advent of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti.

The majority of the attacks are not investigated and remain unpunished, Gouillon told Politika in an interview.

All that is a part of efforts by the Pristina regime and Kurti's extremist Self-Determination movement to mobilise their electorate ahead of the upcoming elections and offer a policy of extremism, nationalism and hatred towards the Serbs as an alternative to an unsuccessful economic policy and a lack of concrete solutions that would improve the people's quality of life, he said.

The shameful and illegal decision to ban Srpska lista representatives from attending the sessions of the so-called assembly in Pristina and the fact the party is being treated as a terrorist and criminal group are a testimony to that, Gouillon said.

"Day by day, the approaching elections in Serbia's southern province encourage Kurti's extremist regime to fully carry out its idea of an ethnically clean Kosovo-Metohija, and the fact that 14 per cent of Serbs have left the north of Kosovo-Metohija in the past two years alone says enough about the conditions the Kosovo-Metohija Serbs are in right now," Gouillon said, adding that 113 ethnically motivated attacks against the Serbs had been registered in the province this year.