More than 60 buses carrying Serbs that were going for the SNS rally (organized for the the party’s candidate Aleksandar Vučić in the Serbian presidental elections) were stopped this morning in several places south of the Ibar.
As daily Blic reports, the provincial committee of the Serbian Progressive Party reported that about 3 000 people have been prevented to go to the rally in Leposavić/Leposaviq.
According to first information, the roads were blocked near Novo Brdo/Novobërdë, Velika Hoča/Hoca e madhe, Štrpce/Shtërpcë and Goraždevac/Gorazhdevc. RTK reports, according to information from the field, that these roads are blocked: Pristina-Vučitrn/Vushtrri, Uroševac/Ferizaj-Štrpce/Shtërpcë, Gnjilane/Gjilan-Pristina, and Peć/Peja-Mitrovica over Rudnik.
Roads were blocked by vehicles and covered with earth and at the blockages are people who carry banners against Serbia and Vučić.
Today in Leposavić/Leposaviq was scheduled a pre-election rally of the Serbian Progressive Party, and as previously announced, will speak SNS Vice President Marko Đurić and members of the Presidency Nikola Selaković and Bratislav Gašić.
Earlier today, the news agency Srna reported that members of the Movement “Self-Determination” stoned this morning a convoy of buses which transported Serbs from the Kosovo Morava to a pre-election rally of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in Leposavić. This information was confirmed in a telephone interview with RTK2 by the Mayor of Novo Brdo/Novobërdë Svetislav Ivanović.
About thirty buses, in which were residents of Kamenica/Kamenicë, Gnjilane/Gjilan, Novo Brdo/ Novobërdë and Vitina/Viti, were stoned in Labljane on the road Gnjilane-Gračanica.
“The convoy was stopped, because the radical Albanians blocked the road,” said to Srna the mayor of Novo Brdo/Novobërdë Svetislav Ivanović.
He added that the police intervened and advised the organizers to use the route Gnjilane-Uroševac-Pristina-Leposavić.
Srna reports also that in the village Miloševo gathered around a thousand protesters from the “Self-determination”, who blocked the road.
The Kosovo police in Gračanica have the information that the supporters of “Self-determination” plan to set up barricades on the road Pristina-Mitrovica at the exit of Pristina and Vučitrn/Vushtrri, learns Srna.
The police advised the organizers to abandon organized departures and to use several buses, because the police are not able to ensure adequate patrols.
