Kosovo police

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The attorney of a young Serb man arrested by the so-called Kosovo Police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica last night said his client had had no physical contact with any officer and had been brutally beaten up during the arrest.

Attorney Milos Delevic said he would seek accountability for such treatment of his client, Rastko Nedeljkovic.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbian Democracy leader Aleksandar Arsenijevic was arrested by Pristina's police in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, Tanjug's correspondent reported.

The so-called Kosovo Police has still not confirmed the reasons for the arrest.

BRUSSELS - European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said at a Brussels press briefing on Thursday the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was "pretty volatile" and that Pristina authorities should avoid any unilateral and uncoordinated actions and steps that could "contribute to increasing the tensions" and escalate the situation further.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Employees of Serbian institutions in Kosovska Mitrovica were again denied access to their workplaces by the so-called Kosovo Police, which is still blocking municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo-Metohija after raiding and closing them on Friday.

Kosovo police prevented Kosovo Serbs from accessing their workplaces in front of the Mitrovica municipality building, which was forcefully closed on Friday, according to Tanjug. Kosovo Serbs gathered outside the building, seeking entry to their offices, but were blocked by police, who had arrived with jeeps.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - The so-called Kosovo Police, which raided and illegally closed the building of the Kosovska Mitrovica provisional municipal authority on Friday, denied entry to the building on Monday to Serb employees who attempted to go to their workplaces.

The employees gathered outside the building and police SUVs are deployed in the area, a Tanjug correspondent reports.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Serbs in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica staged a protest on Thursday over the arrest of two Serb men by the so-called Kosovo Police earlier in the day.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday evening Pristina's PM Albin Kurti wanted to spark a conflict before the US elections as his time was slowly running out and that he was using provocations to turn NATO against Serbia.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday the so-called Kosovo Police had raided and seized Post of Serbia offices in the north Kosovo-Metohija municipalities of Leposavic, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan and Zubin Potok earlier in the day in a coordinated and illegal operation that was unilateral and not in line with any agreement.

JARINJE - The so-called Kosovo Police apprehended a Serb man at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Wednesday for allegedly showing a counterfeit freight transport document of Pristina's ministry of environment and spatial planning.

The man, who is a Serbian national, was apprehended on orders from the prosecutor's office, the so-called Kosovo Police said in a statement.