Serbian media outlet "Alo.rs" today (August 15) published an article claiming that official Pristina has spent millions to urgently arm the Kosovo Police to attack Serbs.
The article published with the title "PRISTINA ALLOCATED MILLIONS TO URGENTLY ARM MEMBERS OF THE POLICE INTELLIGENCE: Kurti bought armored cars to attack Serbs!" interpreted the report of the Kosovo state treasury on the increase in spending on the purchase of weapons and other equipment by the Kosovo Ministry of Interior.
Hibrid.info, based on verification of the facts, assesses that the interpretation made about the arming of the Kosovo Police is tendentious and is considered a conspiracy theory.
Link to the article published in the Serbian media "Alo.rs":
https://www.alo.rs/vesti/politika/661320/kurti-kupio-oklopna-vozila-da-napadne-srbe/vest
Excerpt from the article published on "Alo.rs" translated into Albanian:
The fake state of Kosovo has been urgently equipped with armored vehicles, water cannons, armored limousines and rifles, which are intended for police officers working along the administrative line. Some of the weapons are intended for police officers stationed at checkpoints near the Jarinje and Brnjak crossings.
All this clearly shows that Albin Kurti is fully preparing to cause conflict in the north of the province. It is known that his goal is to liquidate ten people of Serbian nationality, some of whom are political representatives of the Serbs, causing unrest and chaos in Kosovo. The ultimate goal is in fact the exodus of the Serbian people from the province, who would be beheaded with the liquidation of their local leaders.
Alo! learns, the so-called Minister of Internal Affairs of the fake state of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, has ordered the commanders of units in the north to be as active as possible in patrols and to show the public, and this concerns citizens of Serbian nationality, new weapons in every place.
The entire claim of the Serbian media outlet starts from the declaration of the Kosovo state treasury regarding the expenses of the Ministry of Interior, which states that, in the amount of 1,300,000 euros, long weapons were purchased for the border police (350,000 euros), as well as armored cars, water cannons and armored limousines in the amount of 7.13 million euros.
The Serbian media claims that stun grenades, tear gas bombs with a prolonged effect, as well as other types of weapons used to disperse the gathered crowd, as well as micro cameras to observe the north, which are not highlighted in the state treasury report, were also purchased. (see here)
The article also claims that Kosovo's Minister of Interior, Xhelal Sveçla, has ordered commanders of units in the north to patrol and advertise new weapons, an unfounded claim. In fact, Minister Sveçla's post on his Facebook account does not mention such a thing. (see here)
The claim that arming the Kosovo Police is for the liquidation of Serbs is a tendentious interpretation and is not based on concrete facts, except for interpretation.
Analyze:
The article published in the Serbian media outlet "Alo.rs" made a tendentious interpretation of the State Treasury report on the arming of the Kosovo Police, linking it to attacks on Serbs.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses that the Serbian media's claim that the arming of the police was done to attack Serbs and that Minister Svečla ordered the police to patrol more frequently in the north to show the new weapons to the Serbs there is not based on facts, therefore it assesses it 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.