Incidents in Serbia and abroad after stadium provocation

Incidents in Serbia and abroad after stadium provocation

BELGRADE -- Unknown persons late last night used a Molotov cocktail to torch a bakery owned by Albanians in the town of Sombor, northern Serbia.

The same bakery previously came under attack in 2008, when ethnic Albanians in Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.

The motive for the new attack is not known, but there has been high tension after the football game between Serbia and Albania in Belgrade on Tuesday, when a drone was flown over the pitch with a map of the so-called Greater Albania.

Another Albanian-owned bakery, this time in Stara Pazova, came under attack last night, when an explosive device was thrown at it. Nobody was injured in these incidents.

Yet another bakery, also owned by an Albanian, was stoned in Novi Sad, "causing minimal damage and no injuries," according to the police, who reportedly told workers there they would not file charges, and advised them to file criminal charges themselves.

In Kosovo, Albanians set on fire a Serbian flag displayed in one of the main streets in Kosovska Mitrovica and damaged the city symbols.

The Beta agency reported that overnight they also tried to damage the flags displayed near a bridge in this town, and on the municipal building in a street that leads to the ethnically mixed neighborhood of Suvi Do.

In the town of Zvečan, extremists set ablaze a dumpster and a flag owned by a committee set up to build a Serb Orthodox church, and also removed a flag displayed on a medieval tower near Zvečan.

On Tuesday night, the Parish House of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Orahovac was attacked with a rock.

Incidents were also reported in the...