The news that Albin Kurti is a Serbian agent continues to be spread by dubious portals with content in the Albanian language.
The dubious portal "albasky.com" has published this article titled "Serbian Agent: Our Service Brought Albin Kurti into Kosovo, He is Our Agent".
This is the second time this article has been published by dubious portals that publish content in Albanian. The same was distributed in June and December 2021. (see here, here and here)
This claim was made by Serbian conspiracist, Dejan Lučić, in an interview published on April 22, 2020, given to a YouTube channel "Ras Televizija", which broadcasts content in the Serbian language.
He has claimed without evidence that Kurti, through the Serbian secret service, had also infiltrated the Political Office of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Pristina, led by Adem Demaçi, during the war, in the capacity of secretary.
Link to the article published on the dubious portal "albasky.com":
The article by "albasky.com" was also published on Facebook by the page "Gazeta Aktive", which has managed to collect numerous comments and reactions in this post. (see here)
This article has been distributed previously by other suspicious portals, which have also been verified by hibrid.info. (see here)
In this interview, Lučić also spoke about the Kurti family's origins, claiming that their ancestors are Roma from the Župa region in Croatia.
He also spoke about former Kosovo presidents Hashim Thaçi and Behgjet Pacolli. While speaking about the ethnicity of these two, Luçic says that Thaçi's family has Serbian roots, while for Pacolli he says that he has Russian ancestry.
Excerpt from the interview, translated into Albanian:
Adem Demaçi has accepted this Kurti from our service as his secretary. While Kurti is in a relationship with Sokolovic's daughter... While Kostunica had released Kurti... Nothing accidental, Albin Kurti is our agent.
Link to the interview in Serbian:
Dejan Lučić is known in the Serbian world as an author of conspiracy theory publications. He is also known as a close friend of the former head of the Serbian Secret Service, Jovica Stanišić, and the former head of the Special State Security Units, Franko Simatović – Frenki, with whom he was also a faculty colleague (see here).
Analyze:
The article claiming to be by Serbian conspiracist Dejan Lučić continues to be published by dubious Albanian-language portals.
Lučić, you make all these outrageous claims without being based on any facts.
Based on the fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, this claim broadcast on this show, but also published on dubious portals with content in the Albanian language, is assessed 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.