A new raid into the buildings in the north: A group of people asked the tenants in Lesak and Socanica to move out

A group of people broke into four Serbian residential buildings in Lesak and Socanica today, threatened the tenants with forced eviction, telling them that if they did not do so, they would have problems with the police, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced.

"A group of people led by Kurti's emissary, the so-called Deputy Minister Radoica Radomirovic, today broke into four Serbian residential buildings in Lesak and Socanica, where mothers with small children, socially disadvantaged, pensioners live and threatened them with violent eviction, and that if they do not do that they would have a problem with the police," the announcement of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija reads.

These are buildings that had been built with the funds of the Government of Serbia, through the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and local self-government, it is stated in the announcement and emphasized that they had no connection with Pristina, nor does Pristina have the right to dispose of them.

"There is no doubt that this is a continuation of the terror of Pristina directed by Albin Kurti, who wants to take possession of Serbian buildings in the north and expel the Serbs from their centuries-old hearths," the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said.

They note that the residents of these buildings have housing decisions and that they are disturbed by this behavior of "Kurti's emissaries".

They point out that there is no doubt that any attempt to evict them would lead to new tensions and crises in the north and an escalation of the situation, which, as they say, Belgrade and the Serbs do not want at all, but in Pristina, they "dream every day".

"We emphasize that this same group of Kurti's bandits broke into an uninhabited building in Leposavic last night, also built with the funds of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, where they changed the locks and stole the property," the Office reminds.

They add that they immediately informed the international representatives and the mediator in the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, about these unauthorized intrusions into the property.

"The Serbs in the north of Kosovo and Metohija just want to live in peace on their doorstep with their Albanian neighbors, but it is obvious that such a scenario does not suit Pristina, which is why it takes steps every day that are not in the spirit of de-escalation," the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a statement.