Vincenzo Grasso, KFOR spokesman, told TV Prva that KFOR was informed that four people were arrested in Kosovo, but that there is no accurate information about where they are.
“The Kosovo police arrested several people in connection with the murder of Oliver Ivanovic. We were informed that four people were arrested and I’m not sure where they are right now, but I’m sure that they are in the police and would be brought to the justice,” Grasso told TV Prva.
TV Prva asked Grasso about yesterday’s events, he said:
“We knew that this was a police operation, but yesterday there were no troops, no planned actions, no orders. Yesterday we knew something, but I can not say the details.”
Thursday
Vincenzo Grasso said on November 22 that the situation in Kosovo was under control and that there had been no movement of Kosovo Security Forces toward the north, Beta agency reported on its website.
“The situation is under control. Nothing is happening. There was no movement of Security Forces toward the North. There were some police troop movements in southern Kosovo, but there is no reason for concern as KFOR is in touch with the Kosovo police,” Grasso told the KoSSev website.
Asked to confirm Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s claims that KFOR had stopped and prevented the movement of special troops toward the north, Grasso replied that “we did not have anyone to stop,” KoSSev reported.
Grasso added that KFOR “is actively monitoring developments on the ground.”
Vucic said that he had received information that the KFOR mission was ready to stop Albanian troops which had headed from two bases toward the north of Kosovo.
“We received information that KFOR was ready to stop someone’s madness, thanks to them for this, if this is true,” Vucic said in Belgrade during a meeting with Serb representatives from Kosovo.
After media reports and Vucic’s statement that police in Kosovo took Serbian license plates off vehicles in Ropotovo and Ranilug, Kosovo police spokesman Daut Hoxha told KoSSev that this was speculation.
“The information on taking Serbian license plates off vehicles is speculation,” Hoxha said.
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Serbian media reports that citizens in Mitrovica North are disturbed and anxious since the sirens’ sounds woke them up this morning.
However, they have listened to the appeal of Mitrovica North Mayor, Goran Rakic to go back to their daily activities, but they feel anxious since they did not expect intrusion of ROSU members and the arrest of their co-citizens.
“There was panic this morning. We feel very much disturbed, something like this we both expected and did not,” one Mitrovica North resident told Tanjug news agency. Citizens said they believe in the state of Serbia, that it would not abandon them and leave at mercy of Albanians south of the Ibar River.
“I feel like a war is happening here, and it is the same for the last 20 years. Our only hope stays with the state of Serbia,” another Mitrovica North resident said, adding they would act in line with Belgrade’s decisions.
B92 also added that no police presence is visible on Mitrovica North streets now.
