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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A member of the Serbian Gendarmerie who was detained at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Friday has been released from a police station in the south of Kosovska Mitrovica after several hours of questioning, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic met with the head of the Western Balkans Division of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Niels Von Redecker in Belgrade on Thursday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A vehicle carrying medical supplies from the Leposavic health centre to the Clinical Hospital Centre in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica was on Friday pulled over by the so-called Kosovo Police at the Bistrica Bridge checkpoint and ordered to go to a terminal in the south of the town, the hospital's director Zlatan Elek confirmed to Tanjug.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Kosovo Serb was detained at the Bistrica Bridge near Zvecan on Wednesday morning over a social media post containing a photo showing him with an automatic rifle, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police told Tanjug.

BANJSKA - The Banjska village in the Zvecan municipality in the north of Kosovo-Metohija remains sealed off after Sunday's deadly clashes that followed an attempt by a group of Serbs to block a road in the village.

Three Serbs and one officer of the so-called Kosovo Police were killed in the clashes.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's police confirmed to Tanjug on Friday a Kosovo-Metohija Serb arrested at the Jarinje administrative crossing earlier in the day had been released from detention.

Previously, the deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police for Region North said the arrestee, a man identified by the initials B L, had been detained for "possession of narcotics."

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Friday Pristina's special police forces had arrested a Serb from Leposavic at the Jarinje administrative crossing for no reason and without any grounds.

As Kosovo Online writes, 34-year-old B. L. is currently in Jarinje and has not received information about why he was detained.
He was returning by car from central Serbia to Leposavic with his girlfriend, a friend and his three minor children.
After the arrest, members of the Kosovo Police escorted B.L. to the police station in South Mitrovica.

PRISTINA - The special prosecutor's office in Pristina on Thursday indicted two Serbs for alleged "violent conduct".

The two, men identified by the initials S J and I S, were charged with being a part of a "group that committed the criminal offence of hooliganism" on May 29.

Truck drivers with Serbian registration, who have been waiting for several days at the border crossings between Serbia and Kosovo due to the Kosovo authorities' ban on the entry of Serbian goods into Kosovo, blocked the Merdare and Jarinje border crossings last night, Serbian media reported.