Kosovo police obsessed with catching the virus through cars: The Third Confessions of Condemned Citizens

But in a recent explanation by the Ministry of Health it has become known that not to wear a mask in a car if there are people in the same family, there are no violations of the pandemic law.

Despite that, some citizens have been pronounced fines by Kosovo Police for not putting a mask in the car, writes Periscopi.

The citizen with the initial A.R. relates about Periscope how yesterday was banned by the Kosovo Police with the excuse for not wearing a mask while running by car. He showed that he was alone in the car.

I was going to the street known as Three Squares. There a policeman stopped me; I asked for the reason to stop, and he told me to stop because you didn't wear the mask. I was just in the car and being based on a picture that's got MSH when you're alone in the car, you don't need to wear the mask. The cop told me I should be punished for this action... after a discussion with him, I showed him the picture of MS. The cop went to the car, stayed for a few minutes and then came in and said put on the mask and keep going. Such a stop is meaningless to me since I hadn't broken any communications rules... I just wasted my time and was late for my meeting with my client, said the citizen of Periscope.

With 35 euros in fines on August 30th, the nurse of the Gynecology Clinic, Libron Dema, was also convicted of not putting the mask inside the car.

I was sentenced to August 30th in the evening to drive. I've been with my wife and children, I've stopped at the entrance of the village by a cop who I asked about the reason for the ban, and he said “that I don't have a mask”. I told him that I'm a health worker and that I know the rules, that the mask is not mandatory in the car and it's not legitimate”, he stressed. As long as he considers this decision unfair, Demas added that he will not pay the prescribed fine.

The fine for not wearing a mask on the car also took the citizen Enis Veliu, who through a Facebook status, announced that the police had marked him for failing to wear a mask in his car, though he was with his wife and children in the vehicle.

Two cops, a man who looks at each other without speaking a single word, and the other in the bandit's role turned me in for a run-in, why I in the car with my wife and kids don't wear a mask. My attempts to explain to him that on the basis of the Health Ministry manual, no masks should be placed on the car when you're in the house, followed by threats of arrest. Police like this one who don't know laws, rules, and that arrogance is their only means, it's more than a crime that leads me down the street to follow the rules of”, Veliu wrote.

From the Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, they say that such sentences are not pronounced anywhere in the world. KMDLNJ chairman Behgjet Shala told Periscopi that the sentences for failing to wear a mask in a car, when the person is alone, or family members should be canceled.

The “has already been established a legal basis in which the failure to wear protective masks is sanctioned, so Kosovo Police, along with the health inspector, pronounce the sentences to all those who do not respect the safeguard clauses, respectively. An error has been made that has not been specified under which circumstances or cases the” mask should be placed, Shala said.

It doesn't make any sense for the only person in the car to wear a mask or hang out with family. Therefore, the sentences pronounced for this reason mean nothing, nor is it pronounced anywhere in the world. These sentences should be annulled and should by no means be executed and”, Shala stressed.

That wearing a mask in a car is not mandatory, days ago the MS spokesman Faik Hoti announced. He has published a graph showing that while driving a personal vehicle with people living in a family, it should not be carried on masks. Just like you don't wear masks at home with people who live in your family./Periskopi/Besarta Hoti