2023-09-24 07:38:11
Heavily armed assailants attacked Kosovar police officers, leaving one dead, this Sunday, in a context of increased tensions between Serbia and Kosovo.
A police officer was killed and another injured early Sunday near the Serbian border by heavily armed attackers, police said in a statement. The two men were patrolling near a road that had been reported to them as blocked when “the police unit was attacked from different positions with heavy weaponsespecially grenades.”
The Prime minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, immediately castigated an attack “carried out by professionals, masked and equipped with heavy weapons. We condemn this criminal and terrorist attack”, he wrote on social networks. “Organized crime, with financial and logistical support from Belgrade officials, is attacking our country.”
Recurrent disorders
Northern Kosovo is the scene of recurring unrest, and tension there suddenly increased in May when the Kosovar authorities decided to appoint Albanian mayors in four municipalities with a Serbian majority. More than 30 Kfor soldiersthe force led by NATO in Kosovo, were injured at the end of May in clashes with Serbian demonstrators.
Serbia refuses to recognize the independence of its former province, whose population of 1.8 million inhabitants, overwhelmingly of Albanian origin, includes a Serbian community of around 120,000 people, who live mainly in the north of Kosovo.
Since a conflict which made 13,000 deadmostly Kosovar Albanians, relations between the two old enemies go from crisis to crisis.
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