Several parallel municipalities of Serbia, as well as its post and tax offices, were closed on Wednesday in ten municipalities of Kosovo, on the southern side of the Iber River.

The Kosovo Police said that the purpose of the operation, at the request of the Ministry of Local Government Administration, was to stop Serbia’s “illegal services” in Kosovo.

The Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Pristina said, on the other hand, that it did not authorize the Kosovo Police to carry out this operation, since, according to it, there was no official request.

Police actions were taken in the municipalities of Lipjan, Obiliq, Pristina, Fushë Kosova, Vushtrri, Novobërda, Kamenica, Vitija, Rahovec and Skënderaj.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Xhelal Sveçla, said that with this action “the era of parallel and criminal municipalities and institutions of Serbia in the Republic of Kosovo ends”.

In the video that he shared on social networks, the Minister of Local Government Administration of Kosovo, Elbert Krasniqi, was also seen, saying that “from today, the 28 parallel, criminal municipalities of Serbia in Kosovo and their five districts are finally closed”.