Locals in downtown Pristina sentenced to up to 700 euros for peace ruin

The Pristina Gastronomies Association has reacted after this police action. They said they should be rewarded for hiring thousands of young people, not getting fined. The UN Media Office has told Express that the action has come as a result of numerous complaints against the noise of these premises.

In the Kosovo capital, there are hundreds of locals where young people spend leisure time and enjoy themselves, but this is turning out to be an obstacle for several other citizens. They are complaining to the police about the noise that locals in downtown are creating during the evening hours.

And after the occupants' complaints, police have taken action last week, fined the owners of the establishments with anti-crime tickets, which total 150 to 700 euros.

Pristina Police Communications Office has told Express that this action has been conducted following numerous demands of citizens living near those locals.

According to them, this action has started on January 1st, and a total of 36 administrative measures of counter-invention have been pronounced, while citizens' complaints on daily grounds reach up to 20.

“Linked to noises in locals in downtown, from January 1st to today for Pristina in public order and calm, 34 administrative measures have been pronounced against the province of Pristina. Of these 14 have been pronounced within the framework of the operational plan, which has been implemented since 06.02.2019. The plan, which has been undertaken by police in co-operation with municipal inspectors, due to numerous complaints of citizens, neighborhood residents where these locals --” are located, is highlighted in the PKU's response.

Meanwhile, the Pristina Gastronomous Association through a Facebook response has written that businesses are becoming unfair, as according to them in the capital are over 700 businesses employing thousands of young people.

They have even written that if such police shares continue, they could lead to the closure of the premises.

The music stopped us, our bars closed, people pulled us out. How long before this approach to us, the biggest employers in the city? Until we are fined without guilt, because there is no regulation that we will respect as a whole? Until we're treated as an address to overcoming official authority raid, instead of seeing ourselves as the added value of our country's economy? If these measures are going to continue with us, we may even listen to you, stop completely, close all our premises, so that you notice for a few days, the absence that the city would have without the businesses that we have, from which you benefit from many levels, such as employment, tax, and much else. If you want to completely shut us down so that we don't continue to pay undeserved punishments, for reasons we're not even able to figure out”, it says the KGK's reaction.

The police action is not finished with the 6 February evening. Control and punishment of anti-inference bars is being conducted every night and will continue until the locals in the city's centre respect the schedule, police announce.