Radojevic: Children in the north are being arrested for supporting sports clubs, repression against Serbs continues

The Serb List Presidency member Milan Radojevic, stated after today’s detention of two minors in the north by the Kosovo Police that repression against the Serbian people continues, and that this time children were arrested only because they wore T-shirts of certain fan groups and supported particular sports clubs.

Radojevic recalled that last school year ended with the drowning of a high school graduate on the Mitrovica promenade, and that repression by the Kosovo Police continued today, so that Serbs cannot even rejoice at the start of the new school year.

“Today the Kosovo Police detained two minors, two boys aged 15, only because they were wearing supporter group T-shirts. They did not commit any criminal act. The children were on the bus when two plainclothes Kosovo Police officers entered, took them off the bus, confiscated their mobile phones, and took them to the police station where they issued them fines. They did not even notify their parents or a lawyer, which they were required to do by law. The parents were only informed afterwards, once the children had already left the police station,” Radojevic stated.

He emphasized that this is proof that repression against the Serbian people in Kosovo is still being carried out, and that in the north children are being arrested simply for wearing T-shirts of certain supporter groups and supporting sports clubs.

“Just yesterday in Leposavic, a young man was arrested on charges of putting up posters. On the other hand, we still do not know where the individuals who committed the triple murder in Gnjilane are. A warrant has been issued for them, and interestingly, their photos with the acting prime minister and the acting interior minister are circulating on social networks. Yet, they are still being sought, while repression against Serbs in northern Kosovo continues,” Radojevic concluded.

Two minors, aged 15 and 16, were detained today after the Kosovo Police inspected a school bus traveling the Mitrovica–Zubin Potok route.

“Today the police entered a school bus operating on the Mitrovica–Zubin Potok route and checked what kind of T-shirts the children were wearing. On that occasion, two minors aged 15 and 16 were detained due to T-shirts with offensive inscriptions,” said Petrit Fejza, assistant police commander for the northern region, to Kosovo Online.