Kosovo: elite policeman shoots two Serbs | politics

In Kosovo, an elite police officer (33) shot two Serbian cousins ​​(11 and 21) outside of his duty on Friday!

The two Serbs were carrying an oak tree trunk (traditionally cut before the Serbian Orthodox Christmas on January 7) through the village of Shterpce when the man opened fire from a moving car. The cousins ​​are not critically injured, the police said.

The suspect fled in the car but has since been arrested. To which ethnic group the Kosovar belongs is just as unclear as his motive.

But in Kosovo, the attack fueled fears that the conflict with Serbia could flare up again. Because: After Albanians, Serbs make up the second largest population group in the country, which has been independent since 2008.

The Serbian government still regards Kosovo as a breakaway territory. She described the shooting of the cousins ​​as “attempted murder”. Some Serbs blocked the main connecting road from Shterpce to the rest of the country after the incident.

“I strongly condemn the attack on two citizens of Kosovo,” said Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti (47) in the evening.

Only a week ago, a crisis between the population groups and between Serbia and Kosovo was defused after the arrest of a Serbian police officer.

(nko/afp/reu)

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