Oliver Ivanovic feared for his safety days before getting killed

Civic Initiative (GI) SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, who was shot dead on Tuesday morning, four days earlier told a news agency that he feared an assassination.

Ivanovic spoke for Srna on January 12, to say that the security situation in northern Kosovska Mitrovica was "very poor."

"I'm afraid that in this unstable situation an innocent person could come to harm, and I must admit I also fear for my own safety," he told a Srna correspondent, who traveled to Kosovo along with Milorad Arlov, the chair of a Banja Luka-based committee set up to provide assistance to Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

Ivanovic said at the time that his plans to form a political party would "likely bother some individuals," and added that he on several occasions recently warned both domestic and international officials about the worrying situation in northern Kosovo, especially in northern...