Police interrogate suspects for attack on Telep cake shop

NOVI SAD - Six Novi Sad minors aged 17 were interrogated in the local police station on suspicion that they broke the window shop by throwing stones at the Telep cake shop in Novi Sad, northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, the Novi Sad Police Department released on Thursday.

The suspects were interrogated in the official police premises in the presence of their parents, lawyers and high public prosecutor.

Adhering to the prosecutor's warrant, criminal charges will be filed against the suspects for the criminal act of incitement of ethnic, racial and religious hatred and intolerance, the release states.

Telep cake shop owned by Gorani Arslan Rasiti was stoned on October 19 some time around 2 a.m.

Rasiti told the media that a neighbour working as a night guard in the nearby facility reported the attack to the police and that the officers soon arrived at the scene.

"The cake shop has been in business for over 60 years and we never had any problems, so we were very much surprised by the attack," Rasiti said and added that he is glad that the neighbours and citizens of Novi Sad are on his side.

The incidents which occurred during the football match between the teams of Serbia and Albania in Belgrade were followed by several attacks on bakeries owned by ethnic Albanians and the citizens of Novi Sad believe that Rasiti's cake shop was stoned because the attackers assumed him to be Albanian.

The incidents occurred after the political provocation when a drone appeared at the stadium in Belgrade with a banner with the map of a Greater Albania, a nationalist project that would include parts of Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece.

Serbian Minister of the Interior Nebojsa Stefanovic...