Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
On Sunday (September 29th), it was reported that an elderly Serbian couple was attacked in their home in Gracanica.
According to the regular 24-hour report of the Kosovo Police, the case has been classified as "attempted robbery".
What did the Police say?
The case was reported to the police by a Serbian couple, who stated that a masked person had entered their home.
According to them, he attacked them and demanded money.
"After committing the crime, the same person left the scene in an unknown direction. Regarding the case, the victims were sent for medical treatment to the UCCK, while police units are conducting investigative proceedings.", it says in the 24-hour police report, according to Klankosova.tv.
Officially, the person who attacked the elderly Serbian couple is unknown to law enforcement, and the victims have not identified him in any way.
What is being claimed on social networks by profiles in Serbian?
Sunday night's event in Gracanica has been widely commented on on social networks, as well as in Serbian-language media.
In many of these posts, it is claimed that the attacker was Albanian, and they blame the Kurti Government for this attack.
Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs, Nemanja Starović, has accused the Kurti Government of this attack.
“An elderly couple from the Serb enclave of Gracanica in central Kosovo were brutally attacked last night. Interim Prime Minister Kurti continues his fire and storm campaign against Serbs; local gangs are after him”, wrote Serbian Government Minister Starović on the X platform.
His post was also shared by Serbian Embassy in Montenegro, with the inscription:
"A. Kurti's terror against Serbian residents in Kosovo and Metohija continues. The married couple Dragan and Dushka Aleksic were brutally beaten and robbed in their family home in Gracanica last night," this Embassy wrote in X.
Aleksandar Maksimovic, chairman of the Novi Sad People's Party City Committee, directly accused Albanians of this attack, saying in X: "Monstrous attack on the Alexic family in Gracanica! The Albanians (a derogatory Serbian term for Albanians, ed.) entered their house last night and, according to testimony, broke their bones with a wooden stick, while cutting off Dragan's ear with a knife."
There was also a reaction from the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, which said: "The brutal attack on Dušanka and Dragan Aleksić from Gračanica deeply concerned all Serbs living in this Serbian country, but also throughout Kosovo and Metohija, especially considering that our people in this part of the province were very often the target of Albanian extremists and hooligans."
Analyze
An elderly Serbian couple was reportedly attacked on Sunday night in their home in Gracanica.
The couple stated to law enforcement that a suspect entered their home and physically attacked them, but that the suspect was masked, and in no statement to the media have they mentioned the nationality of the attacker.
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