Kosovo police

BELGRADE - KFOR and the so-called Kosovo Police have provided no response to a Journalists' Association of Serbia (UNS) query about a recent death threat to Tanjug journalists, while the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo-Metohija (EULEX) said it had no mandate to investigate it and UNMIK - the UN mission in Serbia's autonomous province - informed the UN special rapporteur for freedom of opinion

GRACANICA - An elderly Serb couple was beaten up and robbed in their family home in Gracanica, Kosovo-Metohija, around midnight on Sunday.

After sustaining head injuries in the attack, Dragan and Dusanka Aleksic were found by a neighbour who drove them to the Gracanica hospital, after which they were urgently transported to Pristina for further medical care.

BELGRADE - The Director of the Serbian Office for Public and Cultural Diplomacy Arnaud Gouillon said on Wednesday Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija were deprived of the right to own property.

In a post on X, Gouillon included a graphic display of locations where Serb property in Kosovo-Metohija had been expropriated illegally to build bases for special units of the so-called Kosovo Police.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A protest over an arrest of four young Serb men was held outside the police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Wednesday morning.

The protesters, who included the arrestees' family members, blew whistles and chanted "Release our children", holding banners that read "Kurtiland police" and "Is the EU concerned?"

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The attorney of a young Serb man arrested by the so-called Kosovo Police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica last night said his client had had no physical contact with any officer and had been brutally beaten up during the arrest.

Attorney Milos Delevic said he would seek accountability for such treatment of his client, Rastko Nedeljkovic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic was arrested by Pristina's police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, Tanjug's correspondent reported.

The so-called Kosovo Police has still not confirmed the reasons for the arrest.

BRUSSELS - European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said at a Brussels press briefing on Thursday the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was "pretty volatile" and that Pristina authorities should avoid any unilateral and uncoordinated actions and steps that could "contribute to increasing the tensions" and escalate the situation further.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

Kosovo police prevented Kosovo Serbs from accessing their workplaces in front of the Mitrovica municipality building, which was forcefully closed on Friday, according to Tanjug. Kosovo Serbs gathered outside the building, seeking entry to their offices, but were blocked by police, who had arrived with jeeps.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police, which raided and illegally closed the building of the Kosovska Mitrovica provisional municipal authority on Friday, denied entry to the building on Monday to Serb employees who attempted to go to their workplaces.

The employees gathered outside the building and police SUVs are deployed in the area, a Tanjug correspondent reports.