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Serb Official Accuses Kosovo Police Of 'Planting' Weapons In Restive North

Speaking in Belgrade a day after the raid, Petkovic said the weapons, which the Kosovo police found near the municipality of Zvecan, were seized from earlier moves to disarm citizens in Kosovo and then "planted" in the north. (file photo)
Speaking in Belgrade a day after the raid, Petkovic said the weapons, which the Kosovo police found near the municipality of Zvecan, were seized from earlier moves to disarm citizens in Kosovo and then "planted" in the north. (file photo)

Petar Petkovic, head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo, has accused Kosovar authorities of planting weapons found during a raid in the north, where tensions have been running high, on June 23. Speaking in Belgrade a day after the raid, Petkovic said the weapons, which the Kosovo police found near the municipality of Zvecan, were seized from earlier moves to disarm citizens in Kosovo and then "planted" in the north. The Interior Ministry has alleged the weapons were to be used in a terror attack by ethnic Serbs. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Balkan Service, click here.

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