Kosovo police harassed journalist
Kosovo police (KPS) has continued to seize new Serbian license plates which have Kosovo cities' letters inscribed on them.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Monday, January 17, 2011
Citizens of north Kosovska Mitrovica so far use the new Serbian license plates, while it is impossible to drive vehicles with Serbian plates south of the Ibar River.
Rakocevic and his family were subjected to humiliation and insults over the new plates, which a KPS officer confiscated and later gave back.
He told that he had entered Kosovo on January 4 with the new plates, and that he was leaving the province when police had stopped him for a regular inspection at the administrative crossing.
"A policeman come out and immediately started removing the plates without warning. He threw them into the room he had come out from and told me that driving with these plates was forbidden. It was clear he was annoyed by the plates and an officer named Hoti told me ten times that these plates could not be used in the state of Kosovo," he said.
Kosovo Serbs choose to register their vehicles in nearby Vranje and Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia for safety reasons, because these towns are not perceived as hostile in Kosovo.
