Kosovo police officers entered two schools in Leposavic without a warrant and photographed the premises

Kosovo police officers in Leposavic, over the weekend when there were no classes at the "Leposavic" Elementary School and the "Nikola Tesla" High School, inspected and photographed the premises.

The director of the "Nikola Tesla" High School, Sladjan Radovic, told Kosovo Online that two police officers arrived on Saturday, just before 5 p.m., and asked the caretaker to unlock certain rooms – the boiler room and auxiliary rooms where caretakers keep tools, without any warrant or explanation.

"Yesterday afternoon, precisely at 4:30, the caretaker called me and said that two police officers had arrived, without a warrant. They didn't have any written authorization to enter our school and take pictures of the boiler room. I told him to open the door, so as not to cause problems for the man, but they deliberately entered without any announcement. They took pictures of the boiler room and left," Radovic said.

The officers then went to the "Leposavic" Elementary School with the same request – they asked the porter to open the boiler room.

However, since he didn't have the key, the police officers entered and photographed the room where the caretaker's tools for maintaining the school are kept.

"They left, but they didn't say anything about why they had come," Radovic said.

He questions the democratic environment they live in when the police come to places where children are educated without a warrant.

"This doesn't resemble democracy, to enter a school, to take pictures... What were they looking for, I don't know. Do they think we are engaged in activities other than educating students? Are they coming deliberately because it's the end of the school year, to create some kind of problem or do they want to scare us, because there are final exams, enrollment... They enter deliberately to scare us," Radovic warns.

Nevertheless, he emphasizes that schools have operated and survived in even tougher conditions.

"No one has the right to prevent us from educating children," the school director stated.

"Our school and other schools throughout Kosovo and Metohija, in the north, have operated and educated children in even tougher conditions. We have educated children according to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education of Serbia, and we will certainly continue to do so. No one has the right to prevent us from educating our children according to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education of Serbia," Radovic noted.

He called on all parents and students not to be afraid and to enroll in schools to make them "more full than ever before.