{"id":188120,"date":"2025-09-22T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=188120"},"modified":"2025-09-22T13:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:08:19","slug":"attacker-arrested-then-released-bus-stoned-in-front-of-a-church-in-the-southern-part-of-kosovska-mitrovica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/attacker-arrested-then-released-bus-stoned-in-front-of-a-church-in-the-southern-part-of-kosovska-mitrovica\/","title":{"rendered":"ATTACKER ARRESTED, THEN RELEASED: Bus stoned in front of a church in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday around 5 p.m. in southern Mitrovica<\/strong>, in front of the city’s St<\/strong>. Sava<\/strong> church, an incident occurred when an unknown man stoned a bus with pilgrims from central Serbia<\/strong> and broke a window. This person has since been arrested, but also released, KoSSev<\/strong> learns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A group of believers, who were returning from visiting monasteries in the south of Kosovo<\/strong>, stopped to visit the St<\/strong>. Sava<\/strong> church as well. As they were getting off the bus, a man threw a stone and broke a window on one of the two buses. The incident occurred in the presence of the police, who are guarding this church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suspect was immediately arrested, and the police also took statements from eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, the pilgrims on the spot improvised the repair of the broken window and thus set off back on their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kosovo<\/strong> Police confirmed the incident. Avni Zahiti<\/strong>, in charge of the southern region, stated for KoSSev<\/strong> that the Kosovo<\/strong> Police today around 5 p.m. arrested the suspect who is believed to have thrown a stone at the bus on “Shemsi Ahmeti<\/strong>” street, damaging the glass on the bus door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“After questioning, the suspect was released in a regular procedure, while a procedure for the criminal offense of ‘Damage to property’ has been initiated against him,” Zahiti<\/strong> stated in a short written statement for KoSSev<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The St<\/strong>. Sava<\/strong> church, burned and devastated during the March pogrom in 2004<\/strong>, has been guarded by the Kosovo<\/strong> Police ever since the liturgical life was restored ten years ago. Restoration work on the church began in 2014<\/strong>, and the very next year the first priest Sa\u0161a Mitrovi\u0107<\/strong> moved into the renovated parish home with his family. He was then replaced by Father Nenad Stojanovi\u0107<\/strong>, who lives with his wife and five children in southern Mitrovica<\/strong> today \u2013 as the only Serbian<\/strong> family in this part of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the difficult circumstances, the liturgical life has been renewed, and an increasing number of believers come to the church, especially on Sundays and for major holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source<\/strong>: KoSSev, Foto:<\/strong> KoSSev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday around 5 p.m. in southern Mitrovica, in front of the city’s St. Sava church, an incident occurred when an unknown man stoned a bus with pilgrims from central Serbia and broke a window. This person has since been arrested, but also released, KoSSev learns. A group of believers, who were returning from visiting monasteries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":188121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8739,5779,8740,8741,8742,107,109,240,113,2245],"class_list":["post-188120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-crkva-svetog-save","tag-hodocasce","tag-hricanstvo","tag-juzna-mitrovica","tag-kamenovanje","tag-kim","tag-kosovo-i-metohija","tag-pravoslavlje","tag-srbija","tag-vernici","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t