In one public reactionThe Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia (OKS) has claimed the breaking of a window of an ambulance in Old Gracka, Lipjan.
This office has linked the case to "anti-Serb rhetoric from the regime in Pristina."
The response from the OQS stated that this ambulance has provided medical services to several Serbian families who continue to live in this area. According to the announcement, the ambulance has an important role in providing primary health care.
Excerpt from the reaction, translated and adapted into Albanian:
“Therefore, this attack on the ambulance also represents an attack on the survival of the Serbian people in this enclave, where Serbs suffered terribly in 1999 when 14 harvesters were brutally murdered. Serbs in this country are rightly afraid and concerned for their safety and every incident must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and without a doubt, such incidents are preceded by the anti-Serb rhetoric of the regime in Pristina, the impunity of those responsible for previous incidents, as well as the inadequate response of the international community, which does not notice these attacks on Serbs and their institutions with due attention.”
What's wrong with this claim?
The OQS has not provided any evidence that the incident may have an interethnic background or be related to political rhetoric.
Serbian language media "kosovo-online.com" has published footage from the scene. While in reporting Regarding the glass breakage, he wrote that "the perpetrators are unknown."
Kosovo Police has not published any announcement so far.
The reaction of the OQS was published in several Serbian-language media (see here, here and here).
Hibrid.info has covered several cases where the ZQS has made such claims, but without providing any facts (see here, here and here).
Analyze:
The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia (OKS) claimed that the breaking of the window of an ambulance in Gracka i Vjetër in Lipjan is related to the "anti-Serbian rhetoric" of Kosovo institutions.
However, it did not provide any facts or evidence to support this claim.
Media reports also speak of unknown perpetrators, while the Kosovo Police has not yet provided information about the motive for the incident.
Therefore, based on the evaluation methodology, hibrid.info assesses the claim as a "Conspiracy Theory".
rationale
"Conspiracy theories" are considered to be informational content that contains a false or unverifiable description of a phenomenon, event or person, presenting it as part or the result of a secret plan ("conspiracy"). The characteristic of these contents is that they present a series of claims, presented as facts, between which cause-effect relationships are established, without providing any reliable evidence.