Cannabis nurseries in northern Kosovo and electricity are a new point of contention between Belgrade and Pristina.
Belgrade, Cannabis nurseries in northern Kosovo and electricity are a new point of contention between Belgrade and Pristina
The police of Kosovo discovered in the city of North Mitrovica three nurseries of cultivation of Indian hemp with 1200 seedlings . One nursery was in a building next to the courthouse.
Kosovo’s Interior Minister Jelai Svetslia told a press conference that two ethnic Serbs had been arrested while accusing Belgrade of controlling and directing the activities of criminal groups in northern Kosovo.
Svetslia also claimed that “the incidents last December with the roadblocks were organized for the drugs and the protection of criminals and not the Serbian population.” He also claimed that “Serb paramilitary groups and criminals in Northern Kosovo receive orders directly from Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Defense Minister Milos Vucic.”
The head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, reacted by stating that “Serbia’s political leadership does not cover up criminal actions and pointed out that Sweden, using isolated incidents and dirty propaganda, is trying to stigmatize all Serbs in Kosovo as criminals.”
In the meantime, the Belgrade-Pristina confrontation is strengthened by the claims of the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, that the non-payment of electricity since 1999 in Northern Kosovo has cost the taxpayers 320 million euros .
“Parallel structures controlled by Serbia, in municipalities in northern Kosovo, have cost citizens and taxpayers in the rest of the country €320 million in unpaid electricity bills and €17 million in water bills since 1999,” Kurti says in his post on twitter .
Belgrade immediately reacted by accusing Kurti of “lying”. The Serbian government announced that from 2009 to 2020 it provided electricity to consumers in Northern Kosovo amounting to 171 million euros.
source: ertnews