Petkovic: It is unacceptable and shameful that the Kosovo police harassed Rakocevic and Milenkovic

The director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, said that it was unacceptable and disgraceful that the long-standing journalist and president of the Association of Journalists of Serbia Zivojin Rakocevic and the editor of the literary programs of the "Gracanica" Cultural Center Zarko Milenkovic were exposed to by the armed Kosovo police in Preoc last night.

"They were stopped half an hour before midnight on the roundabout in Preoc, not far from Gracanica, by a group of police officers with bulletproof vests and weapons, pulled them out of the car, which they thoroughly searched, treated them roughly, kicked them on the legs, and when asked by Rakocevic and Milenkovic, whether there is anyone in the ranks of the unit who speaks Serbian, they received an answer in Albanian in a raised and rude tone. In addition, the police officers refused to show their identification and leave their police number," said Petkovic in a press release.

He added that this was an example of revenge and repression against the Serbian people.

"This is another example of repression and retaliation carried out by the regime of Albin Kurti against the Serbian people in the province, from which neither journalists nor workers in the field of culture were spared. This unprovoked mistreatment on ethnic grounds is the face and image of the supposed democracy that reigns in the area Kosovo and Metohija, in which Serbs are guilty of their very existence and use of their native Serbian language," Petkovic pointed out.

He emphasized that although Rakocevic and Milenkovic addressed the OSCE mission, the US and German embassies in Kosovo and Metohija, and the Police Inspectorate of Kosovo, they did not receive any response.

"From all of the above, it is evident that in Kosovo and Metohija discrimination replaces law and justice when it comes to Serbs, and I will speak in detail about all ethnically motivated incidents and attacks on Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija during the upcoming round of dialogue in Brussels," said the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.