Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić stated yesterday (April 27) on the show "Novo Jutro" (New Morning) that in her meeting with US representatives, she expressed official Belgrade's concern about, as she puts it, the escalation of violence in Kosovo. She claimed that the recent events in northern Kosovo are staged by official Pristina.
Brnabic also claimed without evidence that in 2021, the number of attacks on Serbs in Kosovo increased by more than 30, targeting cultural and religious monuments. She went further by talking about Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, whom she said defends all the Nazi theses from World War II and wants to expel Serbs.
The part of the interview that talks about attacks on Serbs and Orthodox religious monuments in Kosovo:
Yesterday we made it clear that we are extremely concerned about the escalation of violence in Kosovo and that this is seen in everything, including the fact that in 2021, the number of attacks on Serbs in Kosovo has increased by more than 30, on monasteries, on cultural and religious monuments which remain endangered. All of this culminated in Albin Kurti revoking the basic human rights of Serbs.
From what the Serbian Prime Minister has stated, it is clear that there is a constructed narrative, but without any facts to support it.
Link to Brnabić's interview given on the show "Novo Jutro" (New Morning):
This claim by the Serbian Prime Minister, which is not based on any facts, has also been published in several online media in Kosovo. (see here, here and here)
Similar allegations have been made before by Serbian officials, who have made unsubstantiated statements about the destruction of religious sites and the expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo.
Such claims have been made in the past by the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia and the Committee for Kosovo in the Serbian Parliament, and their leaders, Petar Petković and Milovan Drecun, respectively.
Some of the Serbian claims that are not supported by any facts have been addressed by the staff of hibrid.info. (see here, here, here and here)
Analyze:
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić's claim that the number of attacks on Serbs in Kosovo has increased by more than 30, on monasteries, cultural and religious monuments, is completely unfounded.
Also, her claim that Prime Minister Kurti defends all the Nazi theses from World War II and that he wants to expel Serbs is unfounded in any facts that prove such a thing.
For this reason, hibrid.info evaluates this claim by Brnabić as a "Conspiracy Theory".
Reasoning:
"Conspiracy theories" are media reports that disseminate a false or unverifiable description of a phenomenon, event, or person, presenting it as part of or the result of a secret plan ("conspiracy"). A characteristic of these reports is that they present a series of claims, presented as facts, between which cause-effect relationships are established, without providing any credible evidence.