Albanians arrested a Serbian for alleged crimes while he was cutting the ritual bread: Three Serbs were beaten (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

Three Serbs were injured in Petrica near Klina during the ceremony of cutting a ritual bread on the Holy Trinity holiday. One of them was arrested for alleged crimes. The Albanians who had previously been deployed by the police re-assembled and surrounded the displaced Serbs, throwing rocks at them and shouting abusive slogans.

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Albanians blocked the Serbian festival in Kosovo: They closed the approach to a church near Klina with tractors and excavators

A group of Kosovo Albanians blocked #Serb #Orthodox pilgrims who wanted to visit their church of the Holy Trinity destroyed by #Kosovo extremists after the armed conflict in 1999. Kosovo police dispersed the crowd, two Serbs lightly injured. Photos show 2 phases of destruction pic.twitter.com/6rfJgHSDYA— Dečani Monastery (@SavaJanjic) May 28, 2018

Radosav Kizic (22) was injured, who was transferred to a hospital in Pec to receive medical assistance.

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His brother Nemanja (20) and the president of the temporary authorities of Klina Bozidar Sarkovic were also injured in the incident.

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Previously around one hundred and fifty Albanians blocked approach to the Church of the Holy Trinity in Petric near Klina in the central part of Kosovo and Metohija this morning with cars, tractors, and heavy machinery, not allowing displaced Serbs from this village and the surrounding area to mark village Kermesse (festival).

According to Bozidar Sarkovic, the president of the temporary authorities in Klina, Albanians blocked the entrance to the church from all sides, so around 30 Serbs couldn't enter the churchyard and share the ritual bread for Patron Saint's day.

According to the information of the media, around 50 to 150 Albanians blocked the church.

- Since we had no other choice, and with fear for our safety, they went to the police station in Klina, and they sent a special unit to hopefully disperse the gathered Albanians and to allow us to mark the village's Patron saint, although all 250 Serbs were banished from the village in 1999 - the president Sarkovic said, "Vecernje novosti" reports.

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He mentions that Albanians had no reason to prevent them from celebrating the religious holidays, especially since the Serbs don't threaten them at all.

Group of dispersed from the village of Petric should visit the rest of the demolished churches and the village cemetery to mark the Saint Trinity holiday.

The only Serb that remains in the village Petric near Klina is grandma Kata Grujic who is constantly robbed by thieves, every day.

The church of St. Trinity in Petric is not far away from Klina, on the road Pec-Pristina.

It was constructed in 1992, and it was demolished at the end of June 1999, upon the arrival of Italian KFOR forces.

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STONES AT THE AMBULANCE NEAR KOSOVKSKA MITROVICA 

The ambulance in the Serbian part of Suvi Dol, which is located few kilometers from Kosovska Mitrovica, was a target again of unknown attackers. In the night between Sunday and Monday, the glass at entrance door was broken with stones, with the window on the clinic, and the attackers were not found, just like in the previous several attacks.

- Our ambulance in Suvi Dol, where our doctors work five out of six days a week work, is often a target by vandals who remain undiscovered and unpunished. The last attack happened in February this year, but our premises were the targets of attacks in this multiethnic village even in previous years - the head of the Cultural center in Northern Kosovska Mitrovica, doctor Mirjana Gvozdic said.

DJURIC: THE EXTREMISTS WANT TO ERASE EVERY MEMORY TO SERBIAN EXISTENCE 

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, strongly condemned the violence against Serbs today who wanted to mark the Christian Holy Trinity holiday in Petrica near Klina, and he expects from the provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina and international institutions in Kosovo to ensure respect of the right to freedom of movement and practicing of religion for Serbian pilgrims.

Foto: Tanjug/Zoran Žestić

Djuric assessed that today's anti-civilization protest in Klina shows that it is not enough for extremists that Serbs have been banished from Metohija, but they want complete extinction and erasion of every memory of Serbian existence in that part of Serbian southern province.

- In the context of today's blockade of pilgrims to the demolished church in Petrica, it becomes clear the illegal construction works near the monastery Visoki Decani were not an incident, but a consequence of general social climate where every Serbian presence on Kosovo and Metohija is negated and destroyed - Djuric said.

He pointed out that such a kind of exclusiveness, intolerance, and hatred has no place in contemporary Europe, and he insists to stop the violence over the Orthodox people on Kosovo and Metohija in the name of humanity and European values.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Radio Gorazevac / Tanjug)