Within the framework of the disinformation narratives of the Serbian-language media and Serbian institutions and political entities, there is also a place for interpreting incidents that occur mainly in Serb-majority settlements as "ethnically motivated".
Various incidents related to the damage to cemeteries, attacks, looting of religious objects, etc., institutions such as the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, headed by Director Petar Petkovic, and the political entity of the Serbian community in Kosovo, "Serbian List", try to present them as incidents resulting from interethnic hatred. In this case, this disinformation narrative is built on the principle of victimization of the Serbian community in Kosovo.
On the website of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, a list of what they call ethnically motivated incidents against Serbs has been published, where for the month of January 2023, it is alleged that Stefan Tomić (18) from Kllokot was beaten by a group of Albanians on Christmas Day while returning from church services. However, it is difficult to prove the claim that Stafan Tomic was beaten by ethnic Albanians, due to the fact that Kosovo Police have not been able to identify the possible suspects. The victim's father has also refused to identify the incident as an ethnic attack.
The case of Spraying paint on the wall of the image of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic (February 2023), located as a mural in the Upper Neighborhood of Rahovec, the director of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, interpreted it as an ethnically motivated act, although residents stated that they do not know who committed this act.
The damage to several Serbian Orthodox religious sites in Kosovo, the relevant Serbian institutions are trying to present these cases as actions of an ethnic and religious nature. On February 14, 2022, the Diocese of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia raised a claim that incidents committed at Orthodox religious sites in Kosovo are made with ethnic and religious motives. But these two institutions do not base this claim on any fact.
The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, from time to time, tries to create the narrative that the number of interethnic incidents targeting Serbs has increased in Kosovo. But in the argumentative part, the institution in question places the damage to various cemeteries for which the perpetrator and the circumstances of the damage are unknown. Hibrid.info has dealt with the case of damage to the Serbian cemetery in Kishnica, Gracanica (December 2021), where the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia considers this action to be ethnically motivated even though the Kosovo Police has not provided information about the case; as well as the case of damage to a grave in the Serbian cemetery in Kllokot (October 2022) where the Office for Kosovo interprets without facts that "Albanians driven by interethnic hatred" committed this act, even though the Kosovo Police report states that the family members of the deceased whose grave was damaged do not suspect anyone in connection with the incident.
Even cases where we are dealing with physical attacks due to various disputes that occur, the Office for Kosovo interprets them as actions of an interethnic nature, as was the case of attack on two members of the Serbian community in Babimoc (December 2022). In the case in question, the Police report and the statements of the village residents assess that the incident occurred as a result of a momentary dispute and that the attackers are the cause of the problems in the village; and The case of the attack on a Serbian resident in Runik, Skenderaj (January 2022), where the Serbian political entity "Serbian List" described it as interethnic in nature, although the Kosovo Police assessed it as an incident of personal quarrels.
Despite the fact that in the incidents that occur in these regions, facts have never been presented that prove that they are ethnically motivated, the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia with its director at the helm, Petar Petkovic, the Serbian political entity, the "Serbian List" and the relevant institutions in specific cases (the Diocese in the case of the Churches), create the narrative that these incidents are committed by "Albanians driven by interethnic hatred."