In charging six Kosovo Serbs over roadblocks erected in 2022, prosecutors claim to have exposed the coordination, ‘coercion and intimidation’ behind protests and violence in northern Kosovo portrayed by Serbia as ‘spontaneous’, grassroots expressions of fear and resistance.
Xhorxhina Bami
The name of the Viber group gave it away: ‘Barricades December 2022’.
The messages exchanged inside it were equally transparent: “Today we’ll all receive ammunition”; “In the afternoon we could try the weapons in Suvi Dol with two or three bullets each.”
At the time, Serbs in northern Kosovo were setting up barricades at two border crossings with Serbia, parking trucks, ambulances, diggers and other vehicles across access roads in what was cast as a ‘spontaneous’ outpouring of popular anger and fear over the arrest of a Kosovo Serb on suspicion of attacking election facilities.
Prosecutors in Kosovo, however, say there was nothing ‘spontaneous’ about it.
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