Suspects detained over attacks on Albanian businesses

Suspects detained over attacks on Albanian businesses

NOVI SAD -- Milorad Veljović said on Sunday that several people have been detained "and polygraph tested" over on bakeries and shops owned by ethnic Albanians.

These incidents took place over the last few days in several cities in the province of Vojvodina.

The Serbian police director visited Novi Sad on Sunday, where vandals stoned two bakeries and a fast food restaurant and threw a Molotov cocktail at another bakery all owned by ethnic Albanians on October 15 and 16.

The latest attack occurred on Sunday about two hours after midnight when three young men smashed the windows of the "Telep" cake shop owned by Arslan Rasiti, probably assuming that the owner is an Albanian judging by the surname.

However, the owner is a member of the Gorani minority group whose family lives and works in Novi Sad for the last six decades.

On Saturday night, a window was broken at a confectionery store owned by an ethnic Albanian in Bečej. Owing to the efficiency of the police, the case was solved on Sunday. The police have interrogated an 18-year-old man from this village on suspicion that he broke the window with a concrete ball.

On the occasion of the incidents in Vojvodina, Veljović conferred with colleagues in the Novi Sad Police Department and Mayor Miloš Vučević.

He told reporters after the talks that the priority of the police is to determine the identity of the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

He said that the arrests and interrogations of suspects will continue, adding that he expects these cases to be solved in the next few days.

Vučević has condemned in the harshest terms the attacks on property...