Kosovo police

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic warned at a meeting with Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Ming on Friday the situation in Kosovo-Metohija was more than serious and urged a soonest possible de-escalation through a withdrawal of the so-called Kosovo Police from the north of the province and establishment of Kfor protection for local Serbs.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Wednesday the so-called Kosovo Police had continued to harass and arrest Serbs in north Kosovo municipalities and that its only goal was to lead to a fresh escalation of tensions and the crisis on the ground.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A Kosovo Serb was detained at the Bistrica Bridge near Zvecan on Wednesday morning over a social media post containing a photo showing him with an automatic rifle, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday the so-called Kosovo Police had arrested a Kosovo-Metohija Serb at the Merdare administrative crossing this afternoon without any explanation whatsoever and taken him to Pristina.

PRISTINA - The Brnjak administrative crossing between central Serbia and Kosovo-Metohija was reopened on Wednesday morning after being closed for ten days.

A regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police confirmed this in a statement to Tanjug, adding that the Jarinje administrative crossing remained closed.

BELGRADE - Officers of the Serbian Criminal Police Directorate on Tuesday searched a flat and other premises used by Milan Radoicic, placing him in 48-hour police detention.

A criminal complaint was filed against Radoicic, who was taken to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, the police said in a statement.

PRISTINA - A Kosovska Mitrovica basic court has placed a Kosovo Serb arrested at the Jarinje administrative crossing on Sunday under 30-day house arrest.

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic on Monday dismissed as untrue Pristina's accusations Belgrade had armed and trained Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.

BELGRADE - An audio recording of a statement of a witness of last Sunday's killing of Serb Bojan Mijailovic in the Banjska village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija was aired on Serbia's Pink TV on Sunday evening.

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday the key question to Eulex was why it had taken no part in the investigation following the September 24 incident in Banjska.