Wrote: Festim Rizanaj
The incident at midnight on Saturday (April 27-28) in the Bosniak Neighborhood in North Mitrovica, where two Serb citizens were reportedly beaten, is interpreted by the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia without facts as "attempts at systematic oppression of Serbs with the aim of ethnic cleansing."
What did the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian government say?
Through a published reaction regarding the event, this office claims that "the extremist regime of Albin Kurti is responsible for this epidemic of violence", and that "the policy of oppression of Serbs designed by his cabinet in Pristina is increasingly spreading to the streets".
What did Hibrid.info find?
Hibrid.info, after checking the facts, has confirmed that as of the time of publication of this article, the motive or the perpetrators of the crime have not been found. The above-mentioned incident does not appear in the 24-hour report of the Kosovo Police.
Link to the press release issued by the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia:
https://www.kim.gov.rs/v5536.php
What exactly does the statement published by this Office say?
"The extremist regime of Albin Kurti is responsible for this latest epidemic of violence, whose policy of suppressing Serbs from the cabinet in Pristina, where it was designed, is increasingly spreading to the streets."
"More than 500 attacks on Serbs and their property since Kurti took over the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina are the most eloquent possible evidence that an attempt to systematically suppress and intimidate the Serbian people is in place, with the aim of ethnically cleansing Kosovo and Metohija of any non-Albanian factor."
What's wrong with this statement?
The office in question does not provide any factual data to link the incident of the beating of two Serbs with the claim that these actions are being planned by the Kosovo Government, which, according to this office, aims to "ethnically cleanse" Serbs.
This Office, in cases of various incidents related to Serbian citizens in Kosovo, despite the fact that the perpetrators of the crime and the purpose of why they occur are unknown, constantly links them to the Government of Kosovo with the unfounded claim that "it is a project of Kurti's cabinet for ethnic cleansing of Serbs." (here, here, here)
Analyze:
The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia has interpreted the midnight incident on Saturday in the Bosniak Neighborhood, where two Serbian citizens were beaten, without facts, as "attempts to systematically suppress Serbs with the aim of ethnic cleansing."
As of this reporting, there is no public information about the perpetrators or the intent of the crime.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info evaluates this claim of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia 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.