A vehicle belonging to the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Welfare in the Kosovo government and member of the Serbian lIst, Milos Perovic was torched early this morning in the center of Zubin Potok.

Kosovo Police spokesperson for the Region North lieutenant Branislav Radovic told KoSSev that the vehicle was set on fire early in the morning at 02:42h in the center of Zubin Potok.

He added that it is a black Volkswagen Passat vehicle with Kragujevac license plates.

The works on construction of the mini-hydro plant in place called “Obe reke” in Strpce are halted until further notice, Radio KIM reported yesterday. This was announced following the meeting of Strpce inhabitants, investor, representatives of the local self-governance, police and judiciary.

Following the meeting, it was decided to check the documentation of Matkos-group company from Pristina, that is conducting the works.

Radio Mitrovica Sever reports that members of the Kosovo Police Intervention Unit injured ten Serbs from Strpce, who tried to prevent the passage of the excavator to the both rivers in Strpce where the construction of a mini hydroelectric power plant began.

The radio learns that Kosovo Police used pepper spray and batons while unblocking the road. The injured were given first aid in the Health Center in Strpce.

Petrovic family house in Gracanica was robbed and 700 euros and gold worth 450 euros were stolen, reports RTV Gracanica.

The robbery happened last night, when unknown perpetrators burst into the house through the bedroom window, and as the owner said, after returning home, they found window-glass broken and stuff jumbled, from where money and jewellery went missing.

"We called the police, they came and made an insight. We are frightened and traumatized, we often leave the house unlocked, and after this, we wonder what else could happen," Stojan Petrovic said.

Yesterday around 11 am, an unknown person fired shots at the premises within the household of Dragan Maksimovic and at the vehicle belonging to his son-in-law in Donja Gusterica village, reports Gracanica based KIM radio.

Maksimovic is the director of the elementary school 'King Lazar' in this village.

KIM radio reports, quoting RTV Gracanica, that at the moment, Maksimovic's parents were in the house. Dragan Maksimovic called the police which immediately came and made an investigation.

Mayor of Gracanica, Srdjan Popovic, strongly condemned yesterday's incident that happened to three high school girls.

KIM radio reported that three girls were hitchhiking, when an Albanian stopped and gave them the ride, but refused to stop on the way to school which is in Laplje Selo. The case was confirmed to KIM radio by Bratislav Trajkovic, a commander of the police station in Gracanica.

By scheduling elections for mayors of Serb northern municipalities, "Pristina is trying to destabilize Serbs." This creates the danger of protests and violence, Belgrade-based daily Politika writes.

Namely, if the Serb List, voted for by some 90 percent of Serbs in the last elections, decides to boycott the May elections, according to the Belgrade daily, that could lead to police intervention in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, "something that Pristina would then accuse local Serbs and Belgrade for."

The biggest security problem for the Serb community in the North of Kosovo is crime and for the Serbs South of Ibar freedom of movement - says the research within the project "Did the Brussels Agreement Forgotten Citizens" conducted by NGO "Crno Beli Svet" (Black and White World) and TV Mir based in Leposavic.

Assembly Committee on Rights and Interests of Communities and Return meeting was held last Friday in Pristina, TV Most reported.

KoSSev portal reported that on Tuesday a Kosovo Albanian man reported to police that he was physically attacked by unknown individuals at Knjaza Milosa Street in North Mitrovica.

The portal reports that last night at 11.30 pm, an Albanian who was walking along the street was attacked by unknown persons and he suffered bodily injuries-Kosovo Police has published in their report. The victim was sent for treatment to the Mitrovica hospital.
Police launched an investigation into this case.