North Kosovo

While he was driving a car on the main road from Leposavic to Zvean, he was shot by members of the so-called special unit of the Kosovo Police ROSU.
According to Dr Nikola Radojii, surgeon on duty at KBC "Kosovska Mitrovica", M.J. was operated on and is in the intensive care unit.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Following a request by prosecutors, a Pristina court has extended the house arrest of Serb Dejan Pantic, a former Kosovo Police officer from Kosovska Mitrovica, by two months, until May 9, his wife confirmed to Tanjug on Tuesday.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovo Serb Miljan Adzic, who was arrested by Pristina's police on December 9 for an alleged attack on an official person, has been released pending a ruling, his lawyer Milos Delevic told Tanjug on Monday.

Delevic added that Adzic, a resident of Zvecan, northern Kosovo-Metohija, had been released from a detention unit in Podujevo on a 20,000 euro bail.

Kosovo's government decided on Thursday to approve expropriation of property for infrastructure projects "of public interest" in the Serb-majority north despite locals protesting earlier that day that such decisions were illegal.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija Milovan Drecun said on Tuesday all subsequent proposals regarding the form of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija were attempts of political manoeuvring aimed at conforming the Community to Pristina's views.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday Pristina's special police had fired at a vehicle carrying two Serbs, wounding one of them.

Miljan D, who was driving, is seriously wounded while Dusan S, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, is unharmed, Petkovic said.

Kosovo police confirmed that they shot at a vehicle in which there were two Serbs in Bistrica, in the northern municipality of Leposavic, after trying to stop the vehicle.

Police on Monday said the police unit had been deployed at a checkpoint "with the aim to preserve order and public safety and also to prevent crime and smuggling".

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo-Metohija is a condition for a return of local Serbs to Pristina's institutions.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Kosovo Serbs held a protest in North Mitrovica on Thursday over a request by Pristina's prosecution office that the detention of Serb Sladjan Trajkovic be extended by a further two months, the Kosovo Online news portal reported.

BUDAPEST - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday in Budapest there were three red lines for Serbia when it comes to the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.