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Explosive device thrown at St. Panteleimon Church in Prizren

Belgrade, 18 April 2023

The Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija stated that an explosive device was thrown at St. Panteleimon Church in Prizren last night, with which the extremists wanted to set the entrance door to this sacred site on fire.

It was only by sheer luck that a passer-by was there at that moment and with a quick reaction managed to put out the fire that engulfed the outer wall of the church and damaged the entrance door.

The examples of endangerment of lives of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, their property and the property of the Serbian Orthodox Church are getting more and more extreme and they are followed by incendiary statements by Pristina politicians, in which they express clear intolerance towards everything Serbian.

With a policy of lack of condemnation, arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators of such crimes, they only encourage hooligans to strike against the Serbs even more strongly and aggressively.

What causes additional worry is the fact that the eyes of the international community do not see the level of endangerment of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, moreover, the foreign diplomats in Pristina present this area as some kind oasis of peace and religious tolerance, but the real situation on the ground proves them wrong almost daily, reads the statement.