The Office of the President of Kosovo has responded to President Vjosa Osmani’s recent statement in which she said that “over 900 criminal gangs have been dismantled in the past five years.”
In its clarification, the Presidency emphasized that Osmani was referring to cases handled by law-enforcement institutions, not to the number of actual criminal groups.
“In fact, the reference was to cases, not to the number of gangs. As you know, several Serbian gangs operating in the north have been involved in hundreds of criminal offenses,” the statement reads.
The Presidency further stressed that Osmani did not portray Kosovo as a country of crime, but rather as a state governed by the rule of law.
“At no point has the President portrayed Kosovo as a land of crime, but as a country of order and law, where European values of human rights and the rule of law are consistently upheld,” the statement continues.
