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Serbian police stopped the protesters near the checkpoint at the entrance to Kosovo and Metohija

BELGRADE, December 18 – RIA Novosti. Serb police, who maintained order at a rally organized by right-wing organizations near the Jarine checkpoint at the entrance to Kosovo and Metohija, stopped the protesters near the crossing point, the portal reported. Kosovo online.

Activists of right-wing youth movements said at around 13:00 (15:00 Moscow time) “There will never be a border, Kosovo is Serbia!” Several hundred people with flags gathered tens of meters from the entrance of the inoperative checkpoint. Patriots from Serbia, Montenegro and Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina were invited to the rally via social networks.

According to the Kosovo online portal, the NATO contingent began to strengthen its presence in the region on Sunday night. Local residents later noticed over 15 HMMWVs and several KFOR trucks on the rural side roads. A few tens of meters from the Yarine checkpoint, fighters of NATO troops stretched a barbed wire fence and blocked the road with cars.

The meeting proceeded peacefully and without incident, until some protesters tried to break through the cordon and enter the buildings of the checkpoint. According to media reports, police officers with shields formed a new cordon near the crossing and stopped the rally attendees.

Tensions continue in Kosovo and Metohija. The self-proclaimed republican police said on Tuesday that the Jarine and Brnjak checkpoints at the Central Serbia exit remain closed indefinitely, allegedly because “barricades on the highways interfere with the movement of vehicles and goods.”

The incident that prompted the Serbs to build barricades on 10 December has not yet been resolved. Former police officer Dejan Pantic resigned in November, along with his Serbian colleagues from the Kosovo police departments in the north of the region, and was detained at the Yarine checkpoint on suspicion of terrorism as he entered through Central Serbia last Saturday. Since then, the man has been in a police stronghold near the checkpoint, but on Tuesday he was allowed to prescribe medication for chronic diseases.

Source: Ria

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