Rakic: Citizens frightened after incidents in K. Mitrovica (Tanjug)
North Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic has said that citizens have got frightened after the latest incidents in that town, and urged officials from Pristina to stop stirring tensions with inflammatory rhetoric.
"Riots could break out in Kosovo," warns analyst (Tanjug/B92)
BELGRADE -- The latest spate of incidents in Kosovo and Metohija "could turn into serious rioting," analyst Dusan Janjic of the Forum for Ethnic Relations has said.
Two detained Serbs released (KoSSev)
Two Serbs who have been detained following disappearance of a seventeen-year old Albanian in North Mitrovica are released from the detention, stated lawyer Kaplan Baruti. Baruti said that a request of the prosecution for placing two Serbs at court custody was rejected and they are released from detention. Two Serbs were detained for 48 hours based on the prosecutors’ request. They were arrested on Saturday after Kosovo Police received a report on disappearance of the Albanian youngster.
Kosovo incidents stem from "nervousness on both sides" (Tanjug/B92/RTS)
Teenager stabbed by masked attackers in Mitrovica (B92, Blic, TV Most, KIM radio)
Rakic denies that bridge over Ibar will be open for traffic (Kontakt Plus Radio)
The Mayor of North Mitrovica Goran Rakic rebutted allegations carried by Pristina-based Kosovapress agency that main bridge over the Ibar/Ibër River will soon open one line for traffic, and that Peace Park will be removed. He said that he is going to sue the author of the text and Kosovapress agency. Kosovapress agency yesterday reported, and RTK carried, that ‘obstacle’ over the main bridge on Ibar/Ibër River will stay until 18 June, the day when it was placed a year ago, and that traffic will open in one line.