AFP for North: Territor where nothing works, neither the police nor the courts

Local institutions don't work in the territory either. So the French news agency AFP began reporting about the situation in the country's north.

AFP reports that those who want to divorce, buy an apartment, or denouncing a violent mate have nowhere to go.

There's no police, no one I can address. We must endure in silence. No alternative”, Vasilje Milojevic says for AFP, an 83-year-old Serbian pensioner living in the northern town of Mitrovica.

Residents in areas that talked about AFP say they have increasingly been forced to care for each other amid the newest crisis, insisting that the situation is disturbing, but under control.

The neighbours are here for each other. We also have dogs in the backyard“, said Kazagic, 69.

Authorities in Pristina claim the situation is under control.

Kosovo Interior Minister Xhelal Svecla refutes the idea of a security vacuum, saying the government remains able to secure <x0).

Kosovo's “Police are more functional than ever there”, Svecla told AFP. There are difficulties, that's clear. But these difficulties are being created as a result of the actions of criminal groups there, which are also supported and promoted by Serbia”, he said.

AFP also cites a statement by Prime Minister Kurti, who had said Belgrade is using northern Serbs to undermine Kosovo's democratic status.

Kurti has said Belgrade has no priority for the rights of Serbs in the north, but what Serbia wants is the use of the presence of Serbs to undermine Kosovo's democratic status.

“I have no impression that what Belgrade aims at is the rights of Serbs, what they seek is the use of the presence of Serbs to undermine our democratic status”, the country's prime minister, Albin Kurti, for the French news agency AFP, was quoted as saying in an article that this media has dedicated to the situation in the north.

As it was known yesterday, there was little interest in replacing cops in the north.

According to reports about 140 members of non-US communities applied to the Kosovo Police Competition for employing new workers in the northern part of the country, inhabited by Serb majority.