Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has claimed without evidence that authorities in Kosovo are planning to carry out an attack on October 1 in the north of the country.
The Serbian president made this claim during a press conference, following a meeting with the EU special representative for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, held yesterday afternoon (June 29) in Belgrade.
Vučić made these comments in reaction to the Kosovo Government's decision on reciprocity measures towards Serbia.
Aleksandar Vučić's statement published in the Serbian media outlet "B92":
In the context of other unfounded claims such as "planning a new Operation "Storm"" and "intentions of the Kosovo Government to empty Kosovo of Serbs", Vučić has also mentioned the plan for an attack on northern Kosovo, which according to him will take place on October 1.
Parts of Vučić's statement related to the attack claim:
"I talked to the representatives of the Serbian List, they will not tolerate it anymore. They will not tolerate interference from their units. They have given a deadline, and Pristina is planning a general attack on northern Kosovo on October 1. And people should know this."
Vučić has made such unfounded claims, such as predictions about events in Kosovo, before. Some of them were covered by hibrid.info, such as the claim about an attack on the “Vallaç” electricity transformer station in northern Kosovo made during October, November and December of last year, evaluating them as conspiracy theories (see here, here and here).
Analyze:
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's claim during the press conference was not based on any facts. All other statements made during this conference turn out to be unsupported political narratives.
For this reason, based on the methodology of hibrid.info, this claim by Vučić is considered 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.