Serbs stop KFOR vehicles in Jarinje

The KFOR contingent was headed to the Jarinje border checkpoint, but the Serbs have blocked it arguing that KFOR had not been coordinated with the Northern Kosovo local leaders. One of the Serbian illegal parallel structure leaders declared that this is another of the many provocations undertaken by KFOR lately.

KFOR declared that the four heavy machinery were headed to repair the Lozhita bridge, between Zvecan and Leposavic. After being stopped, the KFOR troops have returned in the southern part of Mitrovica and have performed a controlled detonation of a grenade that was placed in the parking of the Kosovo Police station, in Zubin Potok.

KFOR started removing the roadblocks near the Bernjak border checkpoints, which have been blocking the vehicle circulation since September.

The residents are tired of this daily view. Adem Mripa is one of the residents in the northern neighborhoods. He says that his family crosses the bridge everyday by passing over the roadblock, and he hopes that the international community and the locals will solve this problem as soon as possible.

“I don’t want to think if my family members will return or not, or if I will be able to cross over. We’re living under a very big stress and this has to end”, he says.

According to him, life in the northern part of the city, where there is a Serbian majority, is unsafe. Other citizens also ask this matter to end as soon as possible, in order to return to normality.

“We cannot live there anymore, because my house was burned. We’re waiting for the people of the Bosnian Neighborhood and Kroi i Vitaku to face this problem with other ways, rather than the roadblocks”, Muhamet Kosumi declared.

KFOR insists to resolve this situation through dialogue, although the other forms are not excluded.

There have been many meetings with the heads of the parallel communes, and lately, the northern part of Mitrovice was visited by the European Council Reporter for Kosovo, Bjorn Fon Sidove.

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