Hearings of school principals from the north of Kosovo and Metohija continued

As the newspaper learns, yesterday the principal of the school from Kosovska Mitrovica was questioned, and the school principal from Zvečan will also be questioned.

According to the information of Novosti, the invitations arrived at the addresses of 14 directors of Serbian educational institutions.

Lawyer Ljubomir Pantović stated that they are being charged because they allegedly did not allow a referendum to be held in the premises of primary and secondary schools on April 21 to replace the mayors of the municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, which was boycotted by the Serbs.

The punishment for that crime is one to two years in prison.

"I am representing one of the directors who received a summons from the so-called Kosovo police for questioning, by order of the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Mitrovica. Both he and his colleagues claim that they did not commit the criminal offense of obstructing or preventing voting, because no one from the municipal election commissions didn't even appear in schools that were previously polling stations," Pantović said.

He added that it is clear that they did not prohibit anyone from holding the election process, because it did not even take place.

On April 12 of this year, in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, where Serbs are the majority, the authorities of the temporary Pristina institutions organized a referendum to replace the Albanian mayors elected in the elections in April 2023 with the votes of about 3 percent of the Albanian voters.

The Serbs boycotted the referendum because Pristina, as Srpska lista pointed out, had foreseen impossible procedures for the vote and did everything to prevent the referendum from succeeding.