The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, through a notification published on the official website on August 28, reported on an event in the village of Bushince, Kamenica, where a church was robbed and vandalized, while money from donations, worth around 1000–1100 euros, was also stolen.
In the same notificationThe Office for Kosovo presents this event as part of a series of ethnically motivated incidents against the Serbian community in Kosovo.
What's wrong with this content?
The report does not present any facts or evidence that indicate that the church robbery was ethnically motivated. However, the event is placed in the context of alleged ongoing ethnically motivated incidents against Serbs in Kosovo.
Excerpt from the announcement of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia:
"Even this latest example of an attack on a sacred object of the Serbian Orthodox Church shows the deterioration of the security situation in Kosovo and Metohija, where churches, children and Serbian women are also targeted. Not a day goes by without an incident with ethnic motives being recorded in Serbian environments in Kosovo and Metohija, while almost all of these cases remain unsolved and the perpetrators without adequate punishment and sanction."
What is known about this event?
According to reports from several Serbian-language media outlets (see here e here), the investigation into the case was conducted by the Kosovo Police, in the presence of the parish priest and high priest Srdjan Milenković, the chairman of the church board and several residents of Bushinca.
The incident was also included in the Kosovo Police's 24-hour report, published on August 29. According to this report, the case is still under investigation. (see photo below).
At this stage, it is not known who committed the robbery and vandalism of the church. There is also no information on the ethnicity of the individuals who may be responsible for this act.
Hibrid.info has covered several cases where the ZQS has made such claims, but without providing any facts. (see here, here, here and here).
Analyze
The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia presented the looting of a church in Bushince as an ethnically motivated incident, without providing any facts to support this claim.
Kosovo Police have reported the case, but the perpetrators and motive for the crime are still unknown and based on the police report, the case is being investigated.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this 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.