BELGRADE, Jun 2 Clashes with protesters on In the north of Kosovo and Metohija, on May 29, it was not the military contingent of NATO KFOR that started, but the police of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.
Earlier, local media reported that the clashes occurred at the moment when KFOR soldiers from the cordon near the Zvecan municipality began to push peacefully protesting Serbs away from Kosovo police vehicles.
«They don't show the moment when the clashes started. It was done by the police of the self-proclaimed Kosovo, not NATO. They tried (deputy head of the Serbian List party — ed.) Igor Simic to pull out inside, as well as (detained Petrovich and Obrenovic — ed.) Radosh and Dushan. To drag them in and beat them on their side of the cordon. The police shot at (heavily wounded — ed.) Dragisha Galyak, and he has children, a granddaughter was born three weeks ago. It was not enough for him to be killed, for his life had to be fought,» Vučić told TV Prva.
«They show only pictures of the injured NATO soldiers, they are not to blame. But the only one who was shot is Dragisha Galyak, tomorrow I will go to visit him,» the Serbian leader said.
In municipalities in northern Kosovo and Metohija, Zvecan and Leposavić, local Serbs continued Friday's protests demanding the recall of the Kosovo Albanian heads of municipalities elected on April 23 during the Serbian majority boycott and the withdrawal of the self-proclaimed republic's special police forces. May 29 clashes injured 52 Serbs and at least 30 NATO troops in Kosovo and Metohija KFOR.
Kosovo Serbs in three enclaves in the south of the region supported the demands of their compatriots in the north of Kosovo in mass protests on Friday.