KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that he was contacted a month ago by a Kosovo Albanian from Peja, with the initials S.D., who told him that he can remove the barricade over the Iber/Ibar River. S.D. said he was staying in Montenegro when he met a friend of a friend, who happened to be a member of the Bridge Watchers, who told him that he had built the barricade and that he is the only one who can remove it but that he would need guarantees from international representatives in Pristina. S.D. then went to different embassies and even told a minister of the Kosovo Government whom he considered a friend. The barricade, according to S.D., was initially planned to be removed before elections but was then delayed, at Kelmendi’s suggestion, “because all politicians would have rushed to claim the credit and thus influence the process”. Kelmendi further writes that on Wednesday morning he posted a photo on Facebook that S.D. sent him which showed the barricade being removed. “The ‘bridge watchers’ are certainly trying to win some sort of amnesty now that politics has relaxed somewhat relations between Kosovo and Serbia and the situation on the ground is changing. They feel betrayed by Belgrade and want to save their heads. But they also want their credit to be acknowledged. They also wanted the important embassies to know the plan. The biggest credit goes to S.D. He is the true hero of the barricade ... People in Belgrade who said on Wednesday that the barricade should not be removed, went out to rebuild it on Thursday. Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo, ordered his men in northern Mitrovica that close the bridge. But this time with an original idea by planting flowers. ‘What can say about this situation?’ I asked S.D. ‘We removed it once,’ he said in a dissatisfactory tone. ‘Our people who knew nothing about it and then rushed to claim the credit, have two choices: either go there and remove them, or water the flowers’.”