Albanian Language Media: 

•    Kurti: I don’t think I should speculate over speculations (media)
•    Pacolli: We’ve heard from EU that lifting of measures has been foreseen (media)
•    Lajcak arrives in Pristina, scheduled to meet Osmani, Kurti and Bislimi (media)
•    Osmani: Unwavering commitment to lasting and just peace in Ukraine (media)
•    Kurti shares British reporter’s story who recorded attack on Jashari family (media)
•    Lajcak: We have a new momentum, which should not be missed (media)
•    UN Special Rapporteur publishes report from visit to Kosovo and Serbia (media)
•    Aliu gives details on construction of Pristina-Durres railway (media)
•    Kosovo to hand over to Serbia remains of three persons killed during war (RFE)
•    Prizren to host biggest cycling festival in Kosovo this weekend (media)
•    Klinaku: Kurti govt worked against veterans; we will protest (media)
•    KSC issues final warning to Nasim Haradinaj re. his media contacts (media)
•    UEFA initiates disciplinary proceedings against Serbia (media)

Serbian Language Media: 

•    Vucic meets Jenca, discusses situation in Kosovo, necessity to establish CSM (Kosovo Online)
•    Djuric meets SRSG Ziadeh, says dialogue at stalemate because of Pristina (Kosovo Online, social media)
•    PM Vucevic with Lajcak: Time for Europe to give a clear signal (N1)
•    Lajcak says he discussed with Vucevic Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, EU relations with Serbia (RTS)
•    Dacic called on the organisers to cancel the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival (KiM radio)
•    A land parcel and field of Ilija Draskovic usurped in Kosovo Polje, one of usurpers threatened him with death (Radio KIM)
•    The remains of three Serbian civilians killed in 1999 handed over at Merdare (KiM radio)

Opinion:

•    Mutual recognition between Serbia and Kosovo: How do we get there? (IDN)
•    Serbia’s new intelligence chief will guard Vucic’s ‘captured’ state (BIRN)

International:

•    Reporter reflects “25 years after Kosovo’s secession from state of Serbia” (BBC)
•    UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings, prove over Serbian fact actions at Euro 2024 (RFE)
•    UEFA open disciplinary probe against Albania FA after Euro 2024 match (DPA International, MSN)

Albanian Language Media

Kurti: I don’t think I should speculate over speculations (media)

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti was asked today to comment on statements by EU officials who said that reports about the lifting of measures against Kosovo are speculation. “I don’t think I should speculate over speculations,” Kurti told reporters in Pristina.

Pacolli: We’ve heard from EU that lifting of measures has been foreseen (media)

MP from the ruling Vetevendosje Movement and chair of the Kosovo Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Fitore Pacolli, in an interview with RTV21 was asked to comment on EU spokesperson Peter Stano’s statement that reports about the eventual lifting of measures against Kosovo are speculation. “Based on statements and what we have heard from the European Union, the report is expected to include the lifting of measures. We have said several times that enforcing the measures was unfair and that they should be lifted as soon as possible. Kosovo has met all the requirements and any statement that the measures won’t be lifted is unacceptable. We call on the EU to lift the measures as soon as possible,” Pacolli said.

Lajcak arrives in Pristina, scheduled to meet Osmani, Kurti and Bislimi (media)

EU Special Representative for the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, Miroslav Lajcak, will stay in Kosovo for a two-day visit starting from today. During his visit, Lajcak is scheduled to meet President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti. The Kosovo government issued a press release today saying that Principal Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi will meet Lajcak today.

Osmani: Unwavering commitment to lasting and just peace in Ukraine (media)

Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani said in a post on X today at the Ukraine Peace Summit she showcased “the story of the people of Kosovo” and Kosovo’s “unwavering commitment to lasting and just peace in Ukraine and anywhere else in the world!”

See more at: https://t.ly/XM_nu

Kurti shares British reporter’s story who recorded attack on Jashari family (media)

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti in a Facebook post today shared the story of British reporter Vaughan Smith, who had recorded the attacks of Serbian forces against the Jashari family in Prekaz. Kurti said that “Smith, a frequent visitor of Kosovo after the war for freedom, still plays a role in keeping alive the evidence of Serbia’s facts”.

See more at: https://shorturl.at/TtYCt

Lajcak: We have a new momentum, which should not be missed (media)

EU Special Representative for the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, Miroslav Lajcak, said in a post on X on Monday that at the Peace and Sustainable Growth Conference in Athens he was asked about the accession perspective of the Western Balkans and its importance for the future of the European Union. “I stressed that we have a new momentum, which should not be missed,” he wrote.

UN Special Rapporteur publishes report from visit to Kosovo and Serbia (media)

The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, has published a report from her visit to Serbia and Kosovo from March 28 to April 6, 2023. The executive summary of the report notes that “the Special Rapporteur recognizes the strong legal framework for freedom of expression in Serbia but expresses concern that it is being undermined by certain policies and practices, including widespread threats, attacks, hate speech and smear campaigns, online and offline, against journalists, human rights defenders and political opponents, continued impunity for past crimes, slow, ineffective prosecutions and a weak media regulatory body, which is unable to carry out its responsibilities in an independent, effective and competent manner. She urges the Government of Serbia to carry out legal, policy and institutional reforms and demonstrate a stronger, unequivocal political commitment to upholding freedom of expression online and offline, in line with its international human rights obligations. With regard to Kosovo, the Special Rapporteur welcomes the emerging vibrant media landscape but notes the need to improve the inclusivity and diversity of the media, including by providing more sustained support to independent Serbian-language media. The Special Rapporteur remains committed to working with Serbia and Kosovo in their efforts to meet the requirements of international human rights law”.

See full report at: https://shorturl.at/VNVfL

Aliu gives details on construction of Pristina-Durres railway (media)

Kosovo’s Minister for Environment, Spatial Planning, and Infrastructure, Liburn Aliu, in an interview with Kosovapress news agency, said that the project for the Durres-Pristina railway will turn Kosovo “into the main transit country and a distribution point of goods”. “Through the Durres-Pristina railway, Kosovo will become part of a regional network. Currently it is not part of the corridors. So, all the transport of goods for the whole region, be it toward the ports, or from the ports towards the region, will be done through Kosovo. This makes Kosovo a main transit country and a point of distribution of goods. This then creates opportunities for economic development and for creating economic zones around the point of the distribution of goods. The ports of Durres and Tivar, which are already connected, will now be connected also through the railway, they will be connected to Pristina, and from Pristina to the Pristina-Skopje railway, or Pristina-Nis-Sofia, or Pristina-Lesak-Mitrovica-Saltzburg, the whole region will be connected,” he said.

Aliu also said that they’re working to have the feasibility study finished in order to start the implementation of the project as soon as possible. “As soon as the feasibility study is complete, and we hope this will happen very soon, because the options are already on the table, we expect to receive bids for financing, we have already received offers from the British, the Germans, and others, and this is a very pleasant surprise,” he added.

Kosovo to hand over to Serbia remains of three persons killed during war (RFE)

The body remains of three Serbs killed during the war in Kosovo will be handed over to Serbian authorities on Tuesday at the Merdare crossing. The remains are from among the 280 unidentified bodies at the morgue in Pristina. Ditor Haliti, head of the Forensics Institute told the news agency that the body remains, which will be handed over today, were kept at the institute since after the war but that there were problems with their identification. “They could not be identified until now because the families did not supply blood samples that would have helped with the identification. Last year the relatives gave their blood samples and additional DNA samples were sent too and they were identified,” he said.

Serbian authorities also announced that they will receive the body remains. A press release issued by the Serbian government notes that they will receive the body remains of two persons and that the family of a third person will receive his remains. According to Serbian authorities, the persons were killed in Ferizaj, Prizren and Pristina in 1999.

Prizren to host biggest cycling festival in Kosovo this weekend (media)

Bike Fest Prizren, the biggest cycling festival in Kosovo, will be held in Prizren this coming weekend, several news websites report. The festival aims to promote cycling as a culture and healthy way of living, encourage sports and recreation and provide entertainment for all participants. The main activities of the festival will also include lectures by professionals on physical health and proper nutrition for athletes.

Klinaku: Kurti govt worked against veterans; we will protest (media)

Acting leader of the KLA War Veterans Organization, Faton Klinaku, said in an interview with Front Online that the Kurti-led government has worked against the war veterans. He said that after the war veterans were removed from the Law on the Minimum Wage, they talked to several members of the Kosovo Assembly and sent the draft law to the Constitutional Court for review. “The last communication we had with this government was two years ago … If the Constitutional Court rules in favour of the government, we will organise protests,” he said.

KSC issues final warning to Nasim Haradinaj re. his media contacts (media)

Several news websites report that Kosovo Specialist Chambers President Ekaterina Trendafilova on June 13 “issued a final warning to Nasim Haradinaj to abide by all conditions set out in her decision on modification of sentence (“Decision”) issued last December. This warning comes after receiving multiple reports from the KSC Registrar, alerting the President to Haradinaj's contacts or interviews with the media over the past few months, without seeking the necessary approval as mandated in the Decision. Additionally, the President highlighted that Haradinaj had already been reminded earlier this year about the consequences of violating the Decision. The President explained that, although the Decision could be revoked or modified immediately due to the breaches, she decided to give Haradinaj a final warning and made clear that any further breach would lead to his immediate return to the KSC Detention facilities to serve the remainder of the sentence”.

UEFA initiates disciplinary proceedings against Serbia (media)

Most news websites report that UEFA announced on Monday that it has initiated disciplinary proceedings against Serbia’s Football Association over the throwing of objects and “transmitting a provocative message unfit for a sports event”, in reference to a flag showing Kosovo within Serbia’s borders. The disciplinary proceedings also include investigation into alleged misconduct by Serbian fans.

Serbian Language Media

 

Vucic meets Jenca, discusses situation in Kosovo, necessity to establish CSM (Kosovo Online)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met today with Assistant Secretary-General of the UN for Europe, Asia and the Americas at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Miroslav Jenca and informed him of the situation in Kosovo as well as expressed concerns over continuation of unilateral Pristina’s acts, Kosovo Online portal reported.

In a post on his official Instagram account Vucic said they have also discussed the role of UNMIK in stabilising the situation and preserving the peace in the region, but also on a global level.

“{…} I informed our distinguished interlocutor in detail about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, and expressed concern over continuation of Pristina’s unilateral acts, aiming at constant pressure against the Serbian population with gross violation of all the rights representing foundational values of the very United Nations”, Vucic added. 
Djuric meets SRSG Ziadeh, says dialogue at stalemate because of Pristina (Kosovo Online, social media)
Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric spoke today with Head of UNMIK and Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Caroline Ziadeh, stressing on this occasion that importance of UNMIK today is more significant than ever, given that, as he said, Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is at stalemate because of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s actions, Kosovo Online portal reported.

“In an atmosphere in which the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is stalled due to unilateral actions by the ethno-nationalist regime of Albin Kurti, the role of @UNMIKosovo, as a provider of the framework for maintaining peace and stability in #KosovoandMetohija, is more significant than ever”, Djuric wrote in a post on X social platform.

PM Vucevic with Lajcak: Time for Europe to give a clear signal (N1)

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic met Monday in Athens with European Union (EU) Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues Miroslav Lajcak, said the Serbian Government on its website, N1 reports.
Vucevic spoke with Lajcak on the sidelines of the international conference Peace and Sustainable Development, which is being held in Athens. Vucevic said it is time for the Western Balkans to be encouraged and for Europe to give a clear signal. At the panel “The accession perspective of the Western Balkans and its importance for the future of Europe. Are we in a period of stagnation or building new momentum?,” within the framework of the conference, Vucevic assessed that Europe is incomplete without the Western Balkans countries, said the Serbian Government.

He stressed that the name of the panel is precisely the main issue for all the countries of the Western Balkans, and that the essence of that question lies in the fact that people are fed up with expectations. At the same time, he said that Serbia’s membership in the EU is its strategic goal, that reforms will continue and that they should be backed by concrete measures.

For Serbia, the most difficult topic is related to the Kosovo issue, Vucevic said, and voiced the opinion that, through dialogue and using the experience of EU institutions, Serbia could be closer to reconciliation on the ground.

Lajcak says he discussed with Vucevic Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, EU relations with Serbia (RTS)

EU Special Envoy for Belgrade-Pristina talks Miroslav Lajcak said he discussed with Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic in Athens, Greece, about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and EU relations with Serbia.

“In Athens, I met with new Serbian-PM @milos_vucevic. I gave him an update on the state of play in the Dialogue and spoke about EU-Serbia relations”, Lajcak wrote in a post on X social platform.

Dacic called on the organisers to cancel the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival (KiM radio)

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, called on the organisers of the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival to cancel the event.

Dacic, as a guest on Pink TV, said that he asked the people in the MIA who deal with public gatherings and that the police have authority over outdoor gatherings. He notes also that the ministry does not issue permits for indoor gatherings.

"We will see what it will be. I said that it is a high-risk gathering. It is about a space that is not public. Our state bodies do not participate. We appeal to cancel that event. I cannot say what the state will do next," said Dacic.

He added that the "Mirdita, Dobar dan" festival has been held for many years, but that he thinks now is not the time.
As he said, he would like the relations between Belgrade and Pristina to be at such a level that it would be possible to talk in that direction.
Dacic added that the question is how someone will evaluate the holding or non-holding of that gathering "on another side".
"We have to decide what we want in terms of how we will treat those centres of power," Dacic said.
Speaking about the Community of Serbian Municipalities (CSM), Dacic said that Kosovo PM Albin Kurti is looking for some kind of legitimacy that Serbs agree with what he is saying.
KiM radio recalls that the festival "Mirdita, Dobar dan" has been postponed for security reasons.
"Kosovo would have joined the CoE if it weren't for France"
Regarding Kosovo's membership in the CoE, he points out that "if it weren't for France, that decision would be passed.
"France said that they will not agree to membership until they see steps that will clearly show that the CSM will be formed."
When asked whether the Resolution on Srebrenica is a punishment for Serbia, Dacic pointed out that none of the great powers is ever satisfied.
"The West is not satisfied with the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, even though Serbia did not impose sanctions on them. The Russians are not completely satisfied with Belgrade's principled approach to the territorial integrity of Ukraine."
"Everyone has some expectations, but what you said about the punishment, if someone wants to attract Serbia, they act opposite, they force us ever tighter into the arms of Russia, China and others," Dacic added.
"Now they have strengthened our relations with Russia and China," concluded Dacic.

A land parcel and field of Ilija Draskovic usurped in Kosovo Polje, one of usurpers threatened him with death (Radio KIM)

On an usurped land parcel of 750 square metres owned by Ilija Draskovic, displaced person from Kosovo Polje, a car wash and parking lot have been constructed. As Ilija said when he attempted to visit his land parcel in February this year, an usurper, Albanian N.R., threatened him with slaughtering, killing his mother, adding he does not want to see him ever again on that land parcel. Kosovo police confirmed the case had been reported to them. Currently there are two proceedings ongoing at Kosovo courts – one for property usurpation and the other one for threats, Radio KIM reported.

The Draskovic family lived in Kosovo Polje, near the former Vuk Karadzic Primary School until 2000. Then, as Ilija said, they were forced to leave their home as it was burned down and demolished to the ground.

“We are now on my land parcel, that man illegally reconstructed a car wash here. Before it, here was the house that was demolished to the ground in 2000. My late father, my mother, sister and I lived in that house. We lived there until 2000, and then after it under threats and arson we had to leave Kosovo Polje and move to Pancevo”, Ilija told Radio KIM.

After the death of his father Dragan and probate hearing, Ilija found out that this land parcel in Kosovo Polje had been usurped and the car wash reconstructed. Ilija also found out that the usurper prepared a forged sale-purchase agreement, allegedly signed by his late father, uncle and aunt. According to that contract the land parcel was sold in 1999, and in the meantime Ilija learned that a sale-purchase agreement was made in 2011.
“He (usurper) forged some contract, created a fake contract where it is written that we allegedly sold him that (land parcel). We checked in all courts in Serbia and Kosovo, there is no document proving that my late father made that contract. The contract is forged, it has no stamp, so we will win this dispute”, Draskovic said.  In addition to the land parcel where their family home was, in 2008 a field of 1.4 hectares near the cemetery in Kosovo Polje belonging to the Draskovic family was also usurped. In this case as well a forged contract on property was made.

Namely, certain Mitar Draskovic signed the contract with Albanian family Kotlovci on using the land. Ilija claims that they never had a person with that name in their family and that such a person does not exist. Draskovic sought justice in relation to this property usurpation at Basic Court in Pristina, department in Gracanica. Although the case was registered in 2009, Ilija initiated a new lawsuit in 2021.

Cases of usurped properties are a common occurrence in Kosovo, something that was pointed out for years by Ombudsperson Institution, Property Verification Agency, but also people and the media. The highest number relate to usurped land parcels, but also homes and apartments.

The recent examples of usurpation, Radio KIM reported further, took place in Leposavic and Zubin Potok municipalities in 2022 when more than 90 hectares of properties belonging to Serbs had been usurped for the purpose of constructing police bases. The Kosovo Government declared it a public good, and then launched the process of expropriation. This act of the Kosovo Government was met with criticism and condemnations from the international community, Radio KIM recalled.

The remains of three Serbian civilians killed in 1999 handed over at Merdare (KiM radio)

The remains of Momir Milenkovic from Prizren, Svetislav Djap from Pristina and Perka Mladenovic from Urosevac were handed over to the representatives of the Serbian Government's Commission for Missing Persons today at the Merdare crossing. All three persons died in 1999.

KiM radio reported that all three bodies were identified by the method of DNA analysis after representatives of the Commission for Missing Persons collected additional reference samples for DNA analysis from relatives of the missing to identify the remains located in the morgue in Pristina.

Momir Milenkovic from Prizren was kidnapped on June 29, 1999.

"He went to look around the house and there they found him, in front of his house. They kidnapped him and took him in an unknown direction. Until now we didn't know anything, now they told us," his wife Ljiljana said. According to the family, Milenkovic was abducted together with a friend of Muslim religion. The wife and daughter point out that it is easier for them that they will finally bury his remains.

KiM radio reports that the remains of Milenkovic, Djap, and Mladenovic were found immediately after the kidnapping, but DNA analysis was done recently, and relatives found.
All of them died after the arrival of KFOR in Kosovo in 1999.

Odalovic: Cooperation with Pristina at a standstill

Director of the Serbian Government's Commission for Missing Persons, Veljko Odalovic, said that after 25 years, the Milenkovic, Djap, and Mladenovic families were waiting for the day when the identity of their loved ones would be confirmed.

"The bodies were in the morgue in Pristina all the time and by taking blood samples we came up with the identity. These persons disappeared, that is, according to autopsy findings, they were already killed, after the arrival of international missions in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. That is what is a great shame, that those 50 thousand peacekeepers who allowed the mob, which called itself the Kosovo Liberation Army, to deal with the old and the weak in such a shameless way," he said.
All three, he notes, were over 50 years old at the time they died.

Odalovic pointed out that there are still 300 bodies of unidentified persons in the morgue in Pristina.

"Among them are at least 90 persons of Serbian nationality, which is what particularly worries us. The intensity of cooperation with Pristina, that is, with their delegation, has been at a complete standstill for several years. We hoped in Brussels that when the dialogue was moved and when that topic received support, that we would get a new wind behind us, information, and then thanks to Albin Kurti's unilateral decision, the whole process was frozen," notes Odalovic.

Opinion

 

Mutual recognition between Serbia and Kosovo: How do we get there? (IDN)

Opinion piece by Alon Ben-Meir, political commentator.
The conflict between Kosovo and Serbia can only end when both sides agree to recognize the other. The question is how to resolve their conflicting issues, chief among them Serbia’s categorical refusal to recognize Kosovo’s independence

The US Ambassador to Kosovo, Jeffrey Hovenier, recently stated that “The conclusion of this process must be recognition between the two countries, because anything less than this does not fulfill the vision we have for a complete, free, prosperous and peaceful Europe.”
The problem is that both sides need to make concessions to mitigate their differences and achieve mutual recognition. However, they must agree in advance that the purpose of the negotiating process, the ‘give-and-take,’ must lead to mutual recognition.

The failure of past negotiations is primarily attributed to two aspects: first, the EU, as the mediator, did not insist on the need for reciprocal measures, especially on Serbia’s part, to advance the negotiating process. Second, as President Vucic stated repeatedly, Serbia will not recognize Kosovo, irrespective of the changing circumstances.
What would it take to persuade Vucic to change his position, given that he knows full well that Kosovo’s sovereignty is irrevocable? Vucic also knows that Serbia’s prospective membership with the EU, which he seeks, will be impossible unless Serbia and Kosovo recognize each other. Refusing to recognize Kosovo clashes with his interest in joining the EU.

Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/mtk5xash

Serbia’s new intelligence chief will guard Vucic’s ‘captured’ state (BIRN)

Opinion piece by Predrag Petrovic, Research Director at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.
The appointment of a ruling party apparatchik as head of the powerful Security Information Agency suggests the intelligence service will remain a loyal servant of Serbia’s president.

The Serbian public was informed last week that the National Security Council, NSC, chaired by President Aleksandar Vucic, had approved the appointment of Vladimir Orlic, an official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, as the new director of the Security Information Agency, BIA.

The following day, the government issued the formal decision to appoint Orlic as director. While this news attracted attention, it did not come as a big surprise to those familiar with Serbia’s security institutions. Since coming to power in 2012, the Progressive Party has established a practice of appointing people to head the BIA and other state institutions based not on expertise and professionalism but on their loyalty to Vucic.

This is evident from the fact that it was announced that the NSC, led by Vucic, had given its approval for Orlic’s appointment – even though by law the NSC provides only a non-binding opinion in appointing the BIA’s director; the government is the institution that appoints and dismisses the head of the BIA. The move was aimed at signalling that Vucic personally stands behind Orlic’s appointment.

Orlic proved his loyalty to Vucic and the ruling party as president of Serbia’s National Assembly from 2022 to 2024, when he compared the political opposition to Hitler, Goebbels and other fascists, and labelled them thieves and scum. He used similar derogatory names for professional media critical of the Serbian Progressive Party government.
Read more at: https://shorturl.at/2NzCP

International:

 

Reporter reflects “25 years after Kosovo’s secession from state of Serbia” (BBC)

Twenty-five years ago this week, NATO troops entered Kosovo, ending a two-year struggle between Albanian guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serb forces of the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, during which 13,000 people, the vast majority of them Albanians, were killed. The BBC's International Editor Jeremy Bowen reported on the war - and now reflects for Weekend on his impressions of the conflict and on subsequent foreign interventions.

More at: https://shorturl.at/e9Fa4

UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings, prove over Serbian fact actions at Euro 2024 (RFE)

European football's governing body UEFA on June 17 announced disciplinary proceedings and a further investigation into alleged misconduct by Serbian fans at the Euro 2024 soccer championships' group-stage match against England in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, a day earlier.

It said the disciplinary charges against Serbia's Football Association involved the throwing of objects and "transmitting a provocative message unfit for a sports event."
Meanwhile, the investigation involves alleged "discriminatory behavior."

The football association of the former Serbian province of Kosovo, whose independence Serbia rejects, filed a complaint alleging that Serbian fans had brandished “political, chauvinistic, and racist messages,” including a flag showing Kosovo within Serbia's borders.

Decisions on both will be made "in due course," UEFA said. Serbia next plays in Munich on June 20 against Slovenia.

Seven of Serbia's fans were detained by German police on June 16 after violence broke out ahead of the same match, which England won 1-0.

Reports said one of the fans had been accused of dangerous bodily harm.

Police had said earlier they had been forced to separate the two sides' supporters.

UEFA open disciplinary probe against Albania FA after Euro 2024 match (DPA International, MSN)

UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Albanian football federation FSHF in connection with several incidents during the team's Euro 2024 match against Italy.
The ruling body said on Sunday the charges are "throwing of objects, lighting of fireworks, invasion of the field of play transmitting a provocative message."
Albanian fans at Saturday's match in Dortmund, which Italy won 2-1, lit a smoke-bomb, one man ran onto the pitch with an Albania flag in the closing stages, and several forbidden Greater Albania flags were also seen.

UEFA said its control, ethics and disciplinary body would decide on the matter "in due course."

See at: https://shorturl.at/ted2V