Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
The medium "RTV Dukagjini" on its official YouTube channel, on Monday (October 6), published a video material from the show "Rreth e rutrul", which bears the title "After the local elections, the Serbian army enters Kosovo/ "Trap" for Vučić, what is expected to happen?". (archived)
Conspiracy theorist Arianit Sllamniku was invited to this show, and he stated that after the local elections in Kosovo (October 12), the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, will order the Serbian army to enter Kosovo.
What's wrong with this claim?
The show's guest, conspiracy theorist Sllamniku, in no way offers facts that would support this claim, even though he claims to possess such information.
He linked it to the statement of the Serbian president, who at the European Political Community (EPC) Summit in Copenhagen, had said that "the world will become increasingly difficult" and that he "thinks we are heading towards a major conflict."
What did Sllamnik say?
"In Kosovo, after October 12, after these elections that will be certified, the Serb List, the mayors elected from this last race at the head of the municipalities of Kosovo (if any are elected), on the contrary, all the assembly members of the Serb community who are certified as assembly members, are actually representatives of the people in those municipalities and they will gather after the certification of the elections, they will gather and hold a so-called Serbian national assembly in Kosovo and will declare the Association of Serbian Municipalities, unilaterally. This is in response to the fact that the Kosovo Assembly is not voting for the vice-president of the Serb List.
"In addition to the fact that the vice-president is not elected, they will initiate the establishment of the Association of Serbian Municipalities, their community outside the jurisdiction of Kosovo."
"The moment this happens, this association is formed, then it is a direct violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo."
"In this format and in this case, the Kosovo Police Special Unit will receive orders to arrest all those violators of constitutional order in Kosovo."
"And this momentum, when they are arrested, is the moment that gives Vučić reason to intervene in Kosovo militarily."
Sllamnik builds all these hypotheses without offering any facts that would support this claim.
A little context on what Vučić said:
"We already know that there will be war, and there will be, I'm telling you, because I see what's happening and how everyone is preparing. Nobody is preparing for the talks, they're just looking at who will be on whose side. They're digging their trenches and waiting for the start," Vučić is quoted as having stated. (see here (article from REL)
Analyze
In the show "Rreth e Rrotull" broadcast on October 6 on RTV Dukagjini, the guest was conspiracist Arianit Sllamniku, who claimed that after the local elections on October 12, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, will order the introduction of the Serbian army into Kosovo.
However, throughout the discussion, Sllamnik did not provide any verifiable facts or sources that would support this claim, relying solely on assumptions and personal interpretations of political events.
His statements about the unilateral formation of the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities and a possible military intervention by Serbia constitute conspiracy theories that are not based on concrete evidence or official statements.
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.