Petkovic: Raids by Kosovo police reflect Kurti’s ethno-nationalist policy

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, responded to the latest raids by Kosovo police on the premises of the Institution for Sports, Youth, and Specialized Services, as well as the eviction of employees of the public utility company “Vodovod Ibar” in North Mitrovica. He stated that these actions reflect the ethno-nationalist policy of Kosovo's acting Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, aimed at expelling all things Serbian from Kosovo.

Petkovic reminded that on the very day the President of the European Council, António Costa, arrives in Pristina, Kurti orders new raids on Serbian institutions in northern Kosovo, engaging in what he described as “bandit-like seizures” and the harassment of workers—thus clearly showing his stance toward both the dialogue process and the European Union in general.

"The latest raid on the Institution for Sports, Youth, and Specialized Services, the harassment of employees, and this morning's eviction of ‘Vodovod Ibar’ workers in Kosovska Mitrovica is a reflection of Kurti’s ethno-nationalist policy aimed at driving out everything Serbian from Kosovo and Metohija. Kurti continues to implement his policy of escalatory and illegal moves to the detriment of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, while representatives of international missions remain silent and passive observers of these violent and unilateral actions that undermine all the achievements of the dialogue so far,” Petkovic warned.

He emphasized that Belgrade, together with representatives of the Serbian people in Kosovo, will always stand by its people, including those workers now targeted by, as he put it, extremists in Pristina who are compensating for their failure to form a government by attacking the Serbian population.

“One thing is certain—just as pushing Nenad Rasic, a man for dirty work, into parliament was in vain, so too are all his attacks on the Serbian people futile. With each of his unilateral actions, Serbs are more determined than ever to persevere despite the oppression,” Petkovic concluded.