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Serbian returnee assaulted in Decane

Belgrade, 22 May 2008

The Serbian Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija and the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija stated today that an unidentified Albanian has assaulted Serbian returnee Bozidar Tomic (75) in the centre of Decane and caused him minor bodily injuries.

The fifty-year old Albanian stopped Tomic at the entrance of Decane and upon hearing that he is of Serbian nationality, attacked him and punched him in the face several times.

A few citizens who were near reacted and chased away the attacker, and Tomic, who reported the attack to the police station in Decane, was released home after a medical examination in the local health community centre.

Tomic and another two Serbs who retuned to Decane have not had any problems since then and the police have still not managed to identify the attacker.

Coordinator for the Decani municipality Zoran Barovic told the International Press Centre of the Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija in Kosovska Mitrovica that young men from a nearby café stopped their compatriot from inflicting further injury to the Serbian returnee.

Barovic said that by committing such attacks Albanians are sending a clear message to the Serbs that they are not welcome in Kosovo-Metohija.

Tomic, who returned to Decane in January with Milanka Popovic and Vesna Milic, is resolved to remain in Decane, wait for the works on his house to be completed and continue living in the town he was born in.