Serbian newspaper Alo! published an article on its website today (August 20) claiming that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, upon returning from talks in Brussels, has begun persecuting Serbs and declared "Greater Albania."
The article titled "Shameful! AFTER RETURNING FROM BRUSSELS, HE BEGAN THE PERSECUTION OF SERBS AND DECLARED GREATER ALBANIA: Kurti unfurled the flags of war" purports to present Kurti as a warmonger, while Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić as a leader who is fighting to maintain peace in Brussels.
Hibrid.info assesses that the claims are tendentious and unfounded, therefore they are classified as "conspiracy theories".
Link to the article published on "Alo.rs":
https://www.alo.rs/vesti/politika/663076/kurti-razvio-ratne-zastave/vest
Parts of the article published on "Alo.rs" translated:
While Aleksandar Vučić is fighting to maintain peace in Brussels, Albin Kurti wants war at all costs.
With new brutal provocations, the Prime Minister of the Provisional Institutions of Pristina has proven that conflict is his only goal. Immediately after returning from Brussels to Kosovo, he ordered an investigation against young Serbs for benign graffiti that did not threaten anyone and whose messages were not at all controversial. At the same time, the flags and signs of KLA terrorists are sprouting all over Kosovo and Metohija and nothing for anyone.
The claims of the Serbian newspaper “Alo!” that upon returning from Brussels, Prime Minister Kurti has begun persecuting Serbs and has declared “Greater Albania” are linked to an event that, according to “Kosovo-online.com”, took place in Suhodoll in North Mitrovica where a flag with the KLA emblem and another with the map of Greater Albania and photographs of Isa Boletini and Ismail Qemali are seen waving. According to the article published in “Kosovo-online.com”, according to the police, there is no data on the event. (see here)
The media's claim that Albin Kurti is behind this is unfounded and the interpretation that this initiative was taken after returning from Brussels with the aim of persecuting Serbs is unfounded.
Analyze:
The Serbian newspaper “Alo!” on its website “Alo.rs” has published an article in which it claims that the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, upon returning from Brussels, has started persecuting Serbs and has provoked, as it is said, “Greater Albania”. The claims are related to information that in the village of Suhodoll, north of Mitrovica, flags with the emblems of the KLA and Greater Albania were flown. The connection of the event with Prime Minister Kurti and the claims made are unfounded because even the police do not have concrete information about the event in Suhodoll.
Hibrid.info, based on its work methodology, assesses that the claims made in the article are tendentious and are classified as "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.