Several Facebook pages posted an article yesterday (April 2) titled "Kurti: Serbs in the north may set up barricades and attack the police again."
The article posted by these Facebook pages was published on February 14 by the dubious portal with Albanian language content “freshnews201.com”. (here)
Hibrid.info has verified the facts presented in the article and, after researching through online search engines, it has been confirmed that this article is old, published in the media on February 13, at the time when Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti made this statement after the destruction of drug laboratories in northern Kosovo.
Link to the article published on Facebook by the pages "Gazeta ALB" and "Albini për Kosoven":
After researching through online search engines, hibrid.info found the article published in real time (February 13) by several Albanian-language media. (here, here)
While the above statement was made after the destruction of drug laboratories in northern Kosovo, various Facebook pages, by republishing it, have tried to present this old statement by Kurti as current, leaving room for it to be understood as being related to recent developments in the north of the country where police officers were attacked in northern Mitrovica.
So, the statement is taken out of the context of the developments for which it was made.
Prime Minister Kurti has not yet made any statement regarding the attack on police officers in north Mitrovica.
Analyze:
Prime Minister Kurti's old statement that "Serbs in the north may erect barricades and attack the police again" has been republished as current.
While the above statement was made after the destruction of drug laboratories in northern Kosovo, various Facebook pages, by republishing it, have left room to understand it as being related to recent developments in the north of the country, where police officers were attacked in northern Mitrovica.
Based on its working methodology, hibrid.info assesses this article as "misinformation".