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The situation in the north of Kosovo is tense, tear gas and shooting in Zveçan

2023-05-26 14:10:18Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The situation in the north of Kosovo is tense, tear gas and shooting in
Tear gas and shooting in Zveçan

The Kosovo police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the citizens gathered in front of the municipal building in Zveçan - a municipality inhabited by a majority of Serbs in the northern part of the country.

Previously, the police announced that they were assisting the new mayors of the northern municipalities: Zveçan, Leposaviq and Zubin Potok, to enter the official facilities of the respective municipalities.

The leaders of these Serb-majority municipalities - all Albanian - were sworn in a day earlier in public buildings, such as schools, for security reasons.

Although they said that, soon, they would start work from the municipal facilities, it was not clear when such a step would be taken. Alarm sirens were first heard in the four municipalities with a Serbian majority in the north, while citizens also gathered in front of the municipal buildings in Zubin Potok, Zveçan and Leposaviq.

Radio Free Europe learned that several trucks are parked in the middle of the roads at the entrance and exit of Leposaviq.

The former councilor in the Municipal Assembly of Zubin Potok, Millija Bishevac, told Radio Free Europe earlier that the citizens have gathered in front of the municipality building convinced that "the newly elected mayor, Izmir Zeqiri, is trying to enter the building".

"There are cars, where it is believed that he [the mayor] is and that he is trying to enter the municipality building", said Bishevac.

Zeqiri was not available to confirm this information. Bishevac said that members of the Kosovo Police and the EU Rule of Law Mission, EULEX, are around the municipality building.

EULEX did not comment on why it is present in the municipality of Zubin Potok.

The new mayors of the municipalities of Zveçan, Leposaviq and Zubin Potok - all Albanians - were sworn in on May 25, thus taking local power in these three municipalities with a Serb majority in the north of Kosovo.

The swearing-in ceremonies were held in public buildings, because in the municipal buildings there are temporary municipal bodies, which work in the Serbian system.

Only in North Mitrovica there is a municipal building that functions according to the Kosovo system. The new president, Erden Atiq, was sworn in there on May 19.

The local elections in the north of Kosovo were held on April 23, after the resignation of the mayors from the ranks of the Serbian List - the largest party of the Kosovo Serbs. This party opposed the decision of the Government of Kosovo to carry out the process of re-registration of cars with illegal Serbian license plates.

The elections were boycotted by the majority Serb population in that area, which now does not accept the results, namely the new mayors.

Participation in the April elections was 3.47 percent of the total number of registered voters./REL


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