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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that he is worried by recent incidents in which it has been reported that Kosovo Serbs were attacked, and urged the international community to intervene.

“In all of this, I’m concerned that I know that all of this that they do, they don’t do alone,” Vucic told Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Friday.

He said that statements made about the incidents by Kosovo Albanians were “scary”, adding that he was concerned about the “absolute silence of the international community”.

Serbian media reported on Thursday that Serbian Orthodox priest Stevan Markovic and his family were attacked in the village of Zac in western Kosovo.

Blic newspaper said that the Markovic family was attacked by 10 people who blocked the road and smashed up their car.

Kosovo Police said however that according to witnesses, there was an argument between Markovic and the suspects, but they did not hit his car.

Police also said that they searched the house of one of the suspects and “no suspicious things were found”.

“After the publication of false reporting in some Serbian media and news portals regarding this case, Kosovo Police, for the sake of correctness and the constant transparency that it has shown to the media and the public, denies such tendentious reporting by these media by clarifying the above regarding the case presented to the Kosovo Police,” a police statement added.

On Wednesday, media also reported that the local ambulance service building in the village of Novake near Prizren, which is mainly populated by Serbs, was broken into. Kosovo Police announced day later that four suspects had been arrested.

All the suspects, three females and one male, are minors, police said.

On Tuesday, Serbia’s Beta news agency reported that a local ambulance in the village of Suvi Dol near Kosovska Mitrovica, which is also mainly populated by Serbs, was stoned for the second time in two days.

A day earlier, one man was injured and another arrested when Kosovo Albanians in the village of Pjeterq/Petric protested against Serbs displaced in the aftermath of the 1999 conflict who returned to visit the local church.

Police said the clash erupted when around 60 ethnic Albanian residents of the village blocked the road in protest at the visit by 50 displaced Serbs, who arrived on Monday morning for a religious celebration at the local Orthodox church.

“During the ceremony… one Serb resident, R.K. (1995), now residing in Serbia, was injured. He was sent to Peja/Pec Regional Hospital for further treatment and according to the medical team, he is in a stable condition,” a police statement said.

Kosovo’s Minister for Returns and Communities, Dalibor Jevtic, condemned the incident, calling it “unacceptable”.

Marko Djuric, the head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo, accused the Kosovo authorities on Wednesday of being responsible for the reported violence.

“The whole of Serbia is horrified by the rampage against Serbs in a series of incidents that happened in recent days,” Djuric said, N1 television reported.

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