SERBS FINED FOR "OFFENDING" ALBANIANS BY WEARING "KOSOVO IS SERBIA" T-SHIRTS
BBC Monitoring International Reports - June 4, 2008, Wednesday

Text of report in English by Serbian pro-western Belgrade-based Radio B92 website, on 4 June

Caglavica, 4 June: Milos Stojanovic and Milomir Stojanovic from Gnjilane have been fined 250 euros for wearing T-shirts with the message, "Kosovo is Serbia", KIM Radio reports.

Kosovo Police Service (KPS) spokesman Veton Elshani confirmed that police had stopped them for a regular control, but booked them because of the message on their T-shirts, and sent them to the magistrate in Kosovska Kamenica to pay the fine.

Elshani denied that the young men had been arrested.

A cousin of the two men, Vesna Trajic, told KIM Radio that they had to pay a total of 512 euros with taxes.

"They were going from Kusac towards Serbia, dressed in those T-shirts, when they were stopped. They were told that they were offending the Albanian population", Trajic explained.

Source: Radio B92 text website, Belgrade, in English 1411 gmt 4 Jun 08
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