Municipal officials in Leposavic broke into a building for displaced persons, built by the Republic of Serbia, and changed the lock on one apartment. Last month, the same administration sent an invitation to some tenants of that building to return the keys and vacate the apartments.
Officials of the municipal administration of Leposavic Mayor Ljuljzim Hetemi changed the lock on one apartment, while they tried to do the same on two others, but were prevented by the owners, tenants of one of the buildings in Leposavic confirmed for RTS.
The construction of residential buildings in Leposavic was financed by the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and the keys were handed over to displaced families seven months ago by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and the Danish Refugee Council.
“A little after 1 p.m., they came from the Kosovo municipality of Leposavic and broke into Slobodan Spasić’s apartment, changed the lock on the door even though the owner’s belongings were in the apartment. They said they would move a new family in tomorrow,” Ivana Bojić, who happened to be in the neighboring apartment where her father and brother live at that moment, confirmed for RTS.
She adds that the municipal officials tried to change the lock on her brother Milivoje Bojić’s apartment as well, but he prevented them, demanding that they show a decision or any document for breaking into the apartment.
“Aside from some yellow paper with apartment numbers written on it that they were supposed to break into and change the locks, they had no other document with them,” Bojić explains.
She says that her father and brother fled from Istok near Peć in 1999 and have been on the list for apartment allocation since 2020, and that the Commissariat for Refugees and the Danish Refugee Council handed them the keys to the apartment on November 1, 2024.
Municipal officials, as we learn, also tried to change the lock on the apartment of Aleksandra Subotić, who is a displaced person from Uroševac and still lives with her family in the “Hrast” collective center in Leposavic.
Tenants of these buildings fear that Mayor Ljuljzim Hetemi’s officials, with the help of the Kosovo police, will still forcibly evict them from their apartments.
The construction of 42 apartments for displaced persons and refugees in Leposavic was financed by the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the Commissariat for Refugees of the Republic of Serbia, and the Danish Refugee Council through the municipality of Leposavic, but at that time, the leading positions in the local self-government were not held by Pristina’s cadres.
Last month, the municipal administration of Albanian Mayor Ljuljzim Hetemi sent an invitation to some tenants of the building in Leposavic to return the keys and vacate the apartments.
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Source: RTS, Photo: Printscreen Youtube / Kosovo online