Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday that the attack on the police checkpoint in Dobrosin near Bujanovac (southern Serbia) is a shot at the common life, and called for the reaction of the international community in Kosovo-Metohija.

“This is a blatant example of the violation of all agreements with the international community related to the administrative line (towards Kosovo-Metohija). I expect the international forces in KiM to react and I have personally insisted on acting together to find traces of evidence that might lead to perpetrators,” Dacic said following the attack which took place last night near the administrative line, in the area of Stublin in the municipality of Gnjilane, when the unidentified attackers fired a barrage of bullets at the police checkpoint.

No one was injured, although four policemen, two Serbs and two Albanians, were at the checkpoint at the time of the attack, he added.

The interior minister recalled how fiercely the international community reacted when members of the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) were arrested because they crossed the administrative line, stressing that he expects the same reaction.

Dacic said that the authorities are working hard on finding traces of evidence that could lead to the perpetrators, and noted that it is evident that they “did not just want to fire a shot or two“, but rather wanted to kill the police officers who only by sheer chance suffered no injuries.

“It is obvious that these people are not amateurs, but experienced and trained persons,“ Dacic said.

Moreover, the authorities have a well-grounded doubt that the attack was aimed at destabilizing the security situation in this part of Serbia, he added.

This has been the third attack on the checkpoint in Dobrosin since 1999.