{"id":1227,"date":"2023-09-26T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T10:08:01","slug":"policia-e-kosoves-demanton-se-jane-vrare-15-sulmues-konfirmon-3-te-vdekur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/disinfo\/policia-e-kosoves-demanton-se-jane-vrare-15-sulmues-konfirmon-3-te-vdekur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kosovo Police refutes that 15 attackers were killed - confirms 3 fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The bridge near the village of Banjsk\u00eb where the policeman Afrim Bunjaku was killed on Sunday<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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*Prepared by: Ridona Berisha<\/em><\/p>\n

On September 24th, 2023, in reference to the tensions<\/a> in northern Kosovo, a group of around 30 uniformed individuals attacked members of the Kosovo Police on Sunday in the village of Banjsk\u00eb in northern Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Several Albanian-language news portals have disseminated misinformation regarding the number of slain attackers, publishing figures ranging from six, eight, or up to 15 members of the attacking group in northern Kosovo.<\/p>\n

Initially, the media published the news with the headline \"The number of killed terrorists reaches six,\" implying that the number of casualties in the Banjsk\u00eb Monastery incident had reached six. This circulated in outlets such as Kosova Press<\/a>, Dosja<\/a> and Top-Channel.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, there were reports claiming that the number of casualties had risen to seven or eight. The news outlets that spread this information include the Albanian Telegraphic Agency<\/a>, Pamfleti<\/a>, Panorama<\/a>, Gazeta Papirus<\/a>, Sinjali<\/a> and Gazeta Dita<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Furthermore, at 16:23, as tensions continued in northern Kosovo, Facebook pages such as Portal Alt<\/a> and Gazeta Aktuale<\/a> published an article with the title \"Major Defeat for Serbia. So far, up to 15 terrorists killed by the Kosovo Police!\" However, they did not include any official information or quotes from the Kosovo Police to support their claim.<\/p>\n

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However, this information was later refuted by the Kosovo Police<\/a>, who, in their latest media statement, declared that only three attackers were killed, while two others were arrested.<\/p>\n

\"In response to the tense situation and the circumstances created by continuous terrorist attacks, police officers, in self-defense, were forced to use firearms, resulting in the deaths of three attackers and the arrest of two others. Additionally, four suspected individuals who were found in illegal possession of radio devices have been arrested and are suspected of being associated with a terrorist group,\" the police statement reads.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in this statement<\/a>, the Kosovo Police also revealed that during the press conference held on September 25, 2023, they presented confiscated evidence, various types of vehicles, including armored ones, hundreds of different types and calibers of weapons, uniforms, and logistical equipment, including heavy-caliber military weapons such as grenades and mortars, which were seized from the attackers.<\/p>\n

*This article is published as part of the Western Balkans Regional Initiative against disinformation.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cWestern Balkans Anti-Disinformation Hub: exposing malign influences through watchdog journalism.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ura tek fshati Banjsk\u00eb ku t\u00eb diel\u00ebn u vra polici Afrim Bunjaku *P\u00ebrgatiti: Ridona Berisha M\u00eb 24 shtator 2023, duke iu referuar\u00a0tensioneve\u00a0n\u00eb veri t\u00eb Kosov\u00ebs, nj\u00eb grup prej rreth 30 pjes\u00ebtar\u00ebve t\u00eb uniformuar kan\u00eb sulmuar t\u00eb diel\u00ebn pjes\u00ebtar\u00ebt e Policis\u00eb s\u00eb Kosov\u00ebs n\u00eb fshatin Banjsk\u00eb n\u00eb veri t\u00eb Kosov\u00ebs. Portale t\u00eb shumta n\u00eb gjuh\u00ebn shqipe […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1241,363],"tags":[633,649,634,659],"ppma_author":[28],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debunking","category-disinfo","tag-disinformation","tag-kosovo-police","tag-north-of-kosovo","tag-tensions"],"authors":[{"term_id":28,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"disinfo","display_name":"Disinfo","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sbunker_FAKE_NEWS_001-min1647858578.jpg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"Disinfo","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6504,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/6504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}