The Interior Minister of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, said on Saturday that dozens of regular and special Serbian police uniforms, as well as parts of Kosovo Police uniforms, were found in a village in the north of the country.
He said in a post on Facebook that the Kosovar authorities discovered the uniforms in a house in the village of Isev i Poshtem in the Municipality of Leposaviq, after receiving information about it.
Svecla did not say when the uniforms were found or how they ended up there.
But he added that “this is yet another evidence that Serbia’s security mechanisms were and remain responsible for the attempt to destabilize and annex the north of our country”.
The finding of these uniforms comes about two weeks after the Kosovo Police confiscated weapons again in the north of the country.
Tensions in northern Kosovo have been high since last year, especially after a gun attack against the Kosovo Police by a group of Serbs on September 24 in the village of Banjské in Zveçan, where a police sergeant and three Serb attackers were killed.
At the time after the attack, Svečla said that Kosovo found evidence proving that Serbia tried to annex the north of Kosovo and that the attackers had been preparing for a long time in the military bases of the Serbian army inside Serbia.
This has been denied by Serbia.
Kosovo accused Serbia of the September 24 attack, but Belgrade officially denied the accusations.
Shortly after the attack, responsibility was taken by Millan Radoicic, the former vice-president of Serbian List, the largest party of Kosovo Serbs that enjoys the support of official Belgrade.
He had publicly accepted the organization of the attack, however he continues to be free after he left Kosovo after the attack.
Since the attack on September 24 in Banjska in Zveçan, the Kosovo authorities have several times presented confiscated weaponry in the northern part./REL
