Albanian media in Pristina are lately accusing EULEX for not reacting timely in case of Slobodan Sovrlić what led to situation which enabled him to escape from Kosovo police detention cell in Zubin Potok.
Pristina media claim that without EULEX’s assistance, members of local Kosovo police could not resist to gathered citizens who released detained Sovrlić by force, writes Tribuna.
Sovrlić is still at large, probably somewhere in Serbia or Montenegro. After he was detained for arguing with local police officer over a parking lot, he didn’t even dream that warrant was issued against him for committing serious crimes, after what he would be transferred to Pristina detention center. Such awareness has led to gathering of citizens of Zubin Potok/Zubin Potoku who ask how many Serbs are yet to be found on EULEX warrants, issued mainly by Albanians. It is suspected that all those who were on barricades, opposing for months to Pristina’s plans to occupy crossings Brnjak and Jarinje and put the northern Kosovo under control, are on warrants.
“Three sons, two daughters-in-law, spouse and myself, we were on barricades in Janjenica and Zubin Potok in shifts, sometimes all together. Are we supposed to live in fear only because we were at barricades, to wait when they will kidnap us and take us to Albanian prisons for several-years sentences?” asks Ljubiša R. from Zubin Potok surrounding. He opines that citizens did well when they released Sovrlić.
“They did well, along with the leaders of municipality, when they banned EULEX and Albanian border police, which is part of their SHIK service, to move on the territory of Zubin Potok. If anyone committed anything wrong, he should be arrested by local Serbian police and he should be tried in Kosovska Mitrovica, and if he is found guilty he should serve the sentence in local prisons, not in Pristina,” said Ljubiša.
Serbs in four municipalities in northern Kosovo stress that evidence presented by EULEX are quite frequently ‘not much of an evidence’ and that they are brought down to ‘hear-say’, recordings made by cameras, and reports of Albanians-spies, who are frequently reporting names of innocent Serbs, who also use and statements of Serbs in their mutual conversations or their statement in media.
