Serbian-language television "Pink", on Sunday afternoon (July 31), through an extraordinary debate show, analyzed the situation created in northern Kosovo, after the placement of barricades on the roads leading to the two border crossings, Brnjak and Jarinje.
The host of this show, referring to some unverified data, claims that victims have also begun to be reported from the events coming from that area, warning of armed conflict.
The source to which this presenter refers is, as he refers to it, the director of the Mitrovica Clinical Hospital Center, Milan Jovanović.
However, this claim about recording injured people without using figures has been proven to be false.
Excerpt from the show on "Pink" television, covered by the Kosovar medium "Gorazdevac.com", translated into Albanian:
According to the director of the Clinical Center - Hospital in Mitrovica, Milan Ivanovic, the first wounded have arrived and their number is unknown.
Link to the "Pink" television show taken from the Kosovar medium "Gorazdevac.com":
The claim made by the host of this show turns out to be false, given that the source of the information is unconfirmed.
This is also confirmed by the treatment given by the Serbian language media (here) “Gorazdevac.com”, operating in Kosovo.
According to the treatment of the facts by this medium, in the Serbian television show "Pink", it was falsely claimed that cases of injuries from, as it is said, armed clashes were recorded.
Hibrid.info has previously addressed such claims (here), and has confirmed that they are untrue, based on the Kosovo Police announcement issued on the same day (July 31), which states that there is no official information about injuries from the events of that day in the north of the country (here).
Also, according to the treatment made by “Gorazdevac.com”, the claim that the information about the injured came from the director of the Clinical-Hospital Center of North Mitrovica is untrue. In fact, the person to whom this presenter refers as the director of this hospital center, Milan Jovanović, is untrue. According to information provided by the website of this institution, the current director is Zlatan Elek (here).
Furthermore, in several appearances by Elek to the media, he has said the complete opposite, meaning that no person has been reported with injuries from the alleged gunfights during that day (here).
Analyze:
The claims made in the extraordinary debut show of Serbian television "Pink" about the July 31st event in northern Kosovo turn out to be completely untrue.
Starting from the claim that there was an armed clash, with members of the Serbian community injured there, to the claim that the information was provided by the director of the North Mitrovica Clinical-Hospital Center, they are completely fabricated.
For this reason, based on hibrid.info's methodology, these claims are considered "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.