The dubious portal "timenews24hr.com" has published an article claiming that "the rapid reaction units of the Kosovo Police are on alert, and that any Serb who enters Kosovo will be arrested."
Hibrid.info has fact-checked this article, and has confirmed that the headline is false and the news is old.
The content contains news from 2018, when Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin was banned from entering Kosovo, when Serbs were celebrating "Vidovdan". While this dubious portal seems to have tried to connect this with recent events in northern Kosovo.
Members of the Rapid Reaction Unit (RRU) of the police from various cities in Kosovo, in 2018, joined the FIT members at the 'Belvedere' special unit base in Mitrovica, awaiting an order to intervene in case of need.
Link to the article published on "timenews24hr.com":
The same article was also shared on Facebook by the "Specialja" page.
https://www.facebook.com/revistaspecialja/posts/385476666550087
Below you can find the authentic article published in real time (June 28, 2018) on kosovapress.com:
Also, in this article, the photograph does not belong to the current event, nor to that of 2018. Hibrid.info, during research conducted through the "Google" search engine, found that this photograph was taken by the Associated Press (AP) related to the event of May 2019, when the Kosovo Police had arrested several people in the north of the country in an operation against organized crime.
Below you can find the authentic link to that event, while the photo is the 14th in a row.
Analyze:
The dubious portal "timenews24hr.com" has published an old article claiming to present it as current, giving it a title and photos that do not match the content.
Also, there were interventions in the text falsely claiming that the RSN is ready to arrest every Serb who enters Kosovo.
After fact-checking analysis through the work methodology, hibrid.info has assessed this article as "fake news".
Reasoning:
The "Fake News" rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information.
Content that is considered fake news can be reliably determined to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.