Kosovo Police today entered a facility in North Mitrovica, acting on the request of the municipality, which previously housed three Serbian institutions: the Institution for Sport, Youth and Specialized Services, the Sports Federation, and the Cultural-Artistic Society “Kosovski božur.”
The acting Minister of Interior, Xhelal Sveçla, reacted to the development, stating that public spaces usurped for decades by Serbia’s parallel structures are being returned for the use of Kosovo’s municipalities and institutions.
“Following the closure of every institutional parallelism, today the facility which until now was used by parallel structures, namely the so-called Office for Sport, Youth and Specialized Services, was returned to the ownership of the municipality of North Mitrovica. Likewise, a similar action was carried out at the water pumping station in the village of Suhodoll in North Mitrovica. The era of tolerating the development of parallel structures in opposition to our institutions has ended and will not return,” Sveçla declared.
He affirmed that there is order, law, and institutions serving all citizens in every corner of the Republic of Kosovo. The move signifies a continued push by Kosovo authorities to assert sovereignty and dismantle parallel structures operating in the northern, Serb-majority municipalities.
