"Extremists don't shy away from intimidating children": Petkovic on "KLA" graffiti in playground

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Extremists, emboldened by anti-Serb actions, do not shy away from anything, not even from intimidating children, the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, said after more "UCK" ("KLA") graffiti appeared in Kosovo and Metohija, this time in a children's playground, while another incident happened a few days earlier in a Serbian Orthodox church dedicated to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, located in the village of Brod.

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Words "UCK" (Albanian for "KLA", "Kosovo Liberation Army"), "Albania is here", "Albanian field" were written in a children's playground in Susica near the Serb enclave Gracanica.

As Radio KiM is reporting, the playground was vandalized yesterday.

Скандалозни и срамотни графити УЧК на дечјем игралишту у Сушици! Наставља се серија провокација Срба на Косову и Метохији, а екстремисти осокољени антисрпским деловањем не презају ни од чега, па ни да застрашују децу! pic.twitter.com/XOS1L3TMf6— Петар Петковић (@PetkovicPetar) July 21, 2021

Petar Petkovic said that the graffiti written on the children's playground in Susica are "scandalous and disgraceful."

"A series of provocations aimed at Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija continues, and extremists, emboldened by anti-Serb actions, do not shy away from anything, not even from intimidating children!," Petkovic wrote on Twitter.

Desecration of an Orthodox shrine

On July 18, the Kosovo police informed a local priest in Strpce that during a routine check on churches, they saw a damaged door on the temple of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Brod.

The parish priest found a broken lock at the gate, a forcibly opened door on the church and "KLA" graffiti inside it. During the day, the police inspected the scene in the presence of a team from Pristina, and an investigation was launched.

Епархија изразила забринутост након најновије провале цркве св. Петра и Павла у Броду код Штрпца. Свештеник нашао цркву проваљену са графитима ОВК. Полиција извршила увиђај. Епархија апелује на поштовање слобода, духовне и културне баштине СПЦ на КиМ https://t.co/GHcVqReMWV— Рашкопризренска (@EparhijaKIM) July 21, 2021

The Diocese of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church expressed its concern over this, another in a series of vandal attacks on our churches in Kosovo and Metohija, and made an appeal to respect basic religious freedoms, as well as the spiritual and cultural heritage of Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

(Telegraf.rs)