Today, the gates of Visoki Decani monastery will not be closed, but visitors are recommended to postpone their visit due to the announced protest. As stated, Association “Historians of Kosovo” announced protest against the decision of the Constitutional Court to halt all court proceedings about the monastery land, till the end of February. Although there are authoritative documents that the land of 25 hectares belongs to the monastery of Visoki Decani, two Albanian companies claim the opposite.
The abbot of Visoki Decani monastery, Father Sava Janjic said that “only apparently so-called historians from Decani organized the protests.” The real organizer of the protest, according to him, is the municipality “because president of the municipality is very actively working to spread misinformation regarding the monastery and is opposed to the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.”
“We are forced to take special measures. We urge our visitors, particularly those who come with Serbian license plates, not to come to Decani monastery today. We know that such protests are accompanied with a very strong nationalist rhetoric and we fear that incidents could happen,” said Father Sava.
