Simic: Serbs fear the presence of Kosovo Police special units in the north

The vice president of the Serb List, Igor Simic, stated today that Milan Jovanovic's condition was stable after being wounded near the Bistrica Bridge on Monday evening, but that he, like other citizens, was afraid of the presence of the Kosovo Police special units in the north of Kosovo, which, as he said, violated the Brussels Agreement, RTV reports.

Simic said for TV Pink that political representatives of Kosovo Serbs would have a meeting tomorrow with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, and ministers in the Government of Serbia and that they would tell them how Serbs live and present everything that the Pristina regime was doing.

"In the 21st century, on European soil, a police officer shot a man and tried to kill him, and the Kosovo institutions wanted to cover it up until there was pressure from the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, and the Serb List on the ground, where we insisted on showing the camera footage. There are 300 cameras there, and they can best show what happened," Simic pointed out.

He stated that after the meeting with Vucic last week, very unpleasant things had happened to others, including himself, from the Kosovo Police.

"All of this shows that they are trying to find a reason to continue the repression of the Serbs, instill fear in their bones, and expel the Serbs from the north, where they form a compact environment," Simic said.

According to him, yesterday's statement by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Xhelal Svecla, shows that they want to relativize the actions of Kosovo police officers, whereas the wounded Jovanovic acted responsibly, and in his statements to the media from his hospital bed, he did not want to accuse the Kosovo Police, but had only one wish, to return to his family and his duties.

Simic stated that he expected the international forces, which had been given the mandate to take care of the safety of all citizens in Kosovo, to show responsibility and prevent incidents.

"Serbs do not need incidents, and we have never provoked them. The repression of the Kurti regime leads to the implementation of institutional violence, and we cannot predict their behavior," Simic said.

He reminded that more than ten serious incidents had occurred in Kosovo since the beginning of the year, and since Prime Minister Albin Kurti had been in power, there had been more than 300 ethnically motivated attacks on Serbs, their property, and the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Simic pointed out that Serbs were arrested without any reason and mistreated, recalling the case of the arrest of a doctor who had been detained for 30 days for an alleged attack on police officers.

"When an Albanian attacked a police officer and even tried to run him over with a vehicle, he was questioned and released. So much for the kind of system Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija live in," Simic said.