Residents of Gorazdevac: This has crossed every line, we don't have money even for medication

Residents of Gorazdevac are frightened following the Kosovo Police raid on the Provisional Municipal Authority of Pec and the Post Office, as well as the arrest of three workers from this institution. They fear what will happen if they do not receive regular pay after the Central Bank of Kosovo banned the use of the dinar.

Money from the Post Office in Gorazdevac was confiscated by the Kosovo Police on Friday, so residents have nowhere to withdraw their regular earnings.

Milena Jovanovic, a pensioner from Gorazdevac, called on representatives of the international community to come and see the situation on the ground, emphasizing that elderly citizens do not have money even for medication.

"I live here, I was born here, I am always here, I have gone through all the troubles, but this has crossed all boundaries. It's not good, especially for us pensioners; we can't buy checks, we don't have dinars, we don't have money. The pension is small and does not meet our needs, but this has crossed every line, and that is why I urge the international democrats who shape our policies here, let them come and see and make sure of what is being done and how we live and whether this is normal, and whether this exists anywhere else in the world," Jovanovic said.

Slavica Dasic says her husband receives a minimum wage, and that there is no money in the post office. She emphasizes that they pay all bills regularly in Kosovo, so she asks Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti how they will pay bills in the coming period if they have nowhere to withdraw money.

"I don't know how we will manage. My husband receives a minimum wage. We pay for electricity, water, property tax, municipal waste; we pay for everything. We are afraid, but I have hope in our Serbia, hopefully, someone will help us. He (Kurti) does not give us that, my husband earned it, that minimum wage. He worked at the Pec brewery, and he was entitled to it like all other workers. Now he doesn't receive anything from Kosovo, but he pays for everything. Kurti needs to think about it. All of us in the village should protest and ask how we are supposed to pay him," Dasic said.

Radmila Simonovic lives near the post office and is afraid for her safety after the recent events.

"We are worried. I can't work, I live on that pension. In the evening, when I sit down, I think, what will I do and how will I manage, I don't know. I can only send my brother and sister in Serbia to withdraw the pension for me when there's no money," Simonovic said.