Tensions again rose Sunday in the Serb-dominated northern Kosovo when Nato peacekeepers and European Union police moved to seize a dredger used in riots last month. A crowd of local Serbs blocked the unit of the Nato peacekeeping mission (KFOR) that seized the dredger from a facility in Lesak, a town in the Serb enclave in the north of the mostly Albanian Kosovo.
The Serbs removed the roadblock and allowed the KFOR unit to leave with the dredger shortly after noon, Serbian state television RTS said.
KFOR was backing up the EU police, a part of the EU's law-enforcing mission (EULEX), which prosecutors ordered to take the machine as evidence in the investigation of the riots, a KFOR spokesman, Hans-Dienter Wichter, said in Pristina.
The dredger was used in late July to destroy a barracks at the Jarinje border crossing and threaten Polish KFOR soldiers at the site.
One Kosovo policeman was fatally shot during the violence at two contested border crossings in the north that exploded amid a trade war between Kosovo and Serbia.
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