Kosovo police detained an ambulance with a patient in Jarinje because of KM plates; they return everyone because of "expired registration"

Today, the Kosovo police at the Jarinje administrative crossing stopped an ambulance driving a patient sent to the Clinical Center in North Mitrovica, with the explanation that it had no right to pass because it was a vehicle whose registration on the KM license plate had been extended after December 10 last year, and Pristina now "considers these vehicles as unregistered".

Milan Jovanovic, an ambulance driver from North Mitrovica, told Kosovo Online that Kosovo Police officers at the administrative crossing of Jarinje had told him that today at 10 a.m. a letter had arrived that all vehicles registered after December 10 were considered unregistered and that this was "according to the Brussels Agreement ".

"First they took the documents and said that the vehicle was unregistered and that it could not enter Kosovo and that today at 10 a.m. such a letter arrived, that after December 10, no KM license plates vehicle could extend its registration. After that, they let us pass, but warned us that we would no longer be able to enter or leave Kosovo," Jovanovic said.

He stated that the Kosovo Police officers had then returned all private vehicles registered with KM plates behind them.

This was also confirmed to us by Suncica Masic from Priluzje. She told Kosovo Online that the Kosovo Police officers had not allowed her and her son to return home "because of the old sticker".

"We registered the car on December 20, 2022 – KM license plates, everything is regular, but they don't respect that. When we passed the crossing, they didn't say anything to us, and now when we were coming back, they didn't want to let us in. They said it had been an old sticker, and to turn back," Masic said.