Serbs of Kosovo

JAGODINA - Mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica Goran Rakic qualified as strange on Monday the statement by Head of the EULEX Mission Bernd Borhart who said that the trust of northern Kosovo-Metohija citizens in EULEX is increasing.

EULEX: No secret indictments against Serbs

BELGRADE -- Head of the EU mission in Kosovo (EULEX) Bernd Borchardt "has rejected claims that Kosovo Serbs do not trust EULEX," Tanjug is reporting.

BELGRADE - Head of EULEX Kosovo Bernd Borchardt jas rejected the claims that the Kosovo Serbs do not trust EULEX, adding that the citizens of Kosovo who have not committed any crimes have nothing to fear, because there are no secret lists or secret indictments against Kosovo Serbs.

"Ivanović will not be released during trial"

BELGRADE -- Oliver Ivanović will remain in prison until the end of the court process against him due to begin on August 26, the daily Politika writes.

As reported by this newspaper, Ivanović will not be released pending the outcome of the trial despite the fact the Serbian government has provided guarantees.

ZUBIN POTOK - Head of the Zubin Potok municipal assembly Nemanja Jaksic said Monday that unfounded accusations and threats by EULEX that mayor Stevan Vulovic will be taken in for questioning, disturb the functioning of municipal assembly of Zubin Potok, a Serb-majority municipality in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - One passenger vehicle was burned down and another was damaged in Kosovska Mitrovica late Thursday in what was most likely an arson attack, the Kosovo police told Tanjug.

Regional police chief Zeljko Bojic told Tanjug that a Fiat Stilo, owned by a Kosovo Serb who works at the local prison, was torched at about 11 pm.

One car burned down, another damaged in K. Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- One passenger vehicle was burned down and another was damaged in Kosovska Mitrovica late on Thursday.

The incident was "most likely an arson attack," the Kosovo police told Tanjug.

Ivanović says he was arrested to end his political activity

BELGRADE -- Oliver Ivanović has said that his arrester came in order to prevent his political activity.

Ivanović is one of Serb leaders in northern Kosovo, arrested in January and indicted this week for crimes against ethnic Albanians.

GORAZDEVAC - Serbia marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attack in which two Serb children were murdered and four more were wounded on the bank of the Bistrica River in Gorazdevac near Pec, north-west Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The Office of the Kosovo Special Prosecutor has raised an indictment against one of the political leaders of the Kosovo Serbs, President of the Citizen Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice Oliver Ivanovic, Tanjug learned on Tuesday.