Kosovo Serbs take over U.N. court in flashpoint town

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Source: Reuters

MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) - A couple of hundred ethnic Serb protesters took over a United Nations court in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica in north Kosovo on Friday after U.N. police guarding the compound retreated.

Kosovo's Serb minority, some 120,000 people among 2 million Albanians, reject Kosovo's February 17 secession from Serbia. The Serbian government has vowed to never accept it and to extend its authority over Serb areas in the territory's north.

The protesters had been outside the building for several weeks, preventing Albanian court workers from crossing the bridge over the Ibar River that divides Mitrovica into a Serb north and an Albanian south.

"We have returned to a building that belongs to us, and in which we worked until 1999," said municipal public prosecutor Milan Bigovic.



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