Deputy Director of French Le Figaro: Serbs in Kosovo are fifth-class citizens, living worse than under apartheid

The Director of the Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy in the Government of Serbia, Arnaud Gouillon, shared on social network “X” a video of Jean-Christophe Buisson, Deputy Director of Le Figaro Magazine, France’s most widely read magazine, who testified about the difficult situation of Serbs in Kosovo.

Buisson, who visited Kosovo, compared the conditions in which the Serbs live to apartheid in South Africa.

“Thank you, Jean-Christophe Buisson, for helping the truth about Kosovo and Metohija to be heard as far as possible. Standing by the Serbs and defending the truth means being brave and steadfast,” Gouillon wrote on “X.”

In the video, Buisson points out that in Kosovo’s villages, Serbs live in isolation and emphasizes that there are villages with only one child.

“That child has no one to play with,” Buisson stressed.

He also said that Serbs in Kosovo have fewer rights than Black people did during the notorious apartheid era in South Africa.

“When I compared them to the Bantustans, I meant that the Black people who lived in the Bantustans had the right to go to the city, to work, and to return home in the evening. The Serbs don’t even have that,” he underlined.

As an example, Buisson mentioned Gracanica, located about ten kilometers from Pristina.

“For them, there is no public transportation to Pristina; no Albanian comes to drive them. Transport is practically forbidden for them,” noted the deputy director of the French magazine.

According to him, the situation in which the Serbs in Kosovo live is the reason he compares them to Black people under apartheid.

“In other words, to fifth-class citizens who cannot move freely, freely practice their faith, work freely, or attend school freely. Imagine the life of a child between the ages of one and eighteen who lives only among adults. It’s a horrific situation,” Buisson said.