How the shooting in Deçan was turned into a propaganda narrative of an “attack on Serbs”

The shooting that occurred in Deçan, in which three people were wounded – two Serbs and one Albanian – was very quickly presented by certain pro-government media in Serbia as an ethnically motivated attack against Serbs, despite the fact that there is no official confirmation of such a claim from the competent institutions in Kosovo.

In official police statements, it has not been stated that the motive of the attack was ethnic in nature, nor that the victims were targeted because of their national affiliation.

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The Politika portal claimed already in its headline that the attacker fired “because they were Serbs,” thereby imposing a motive for the incident without any verification, while completely omitting the fact that an Albanian was also wounded.

https://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/724440/albanac-upucao-dejana-i-radovana-u-decanima-jer-su-srbi)

A similar approach was taken by Informer, which described the incident as the act of an “Albanian extremist,” focusing exclusively on the wounded Serbs and ignoring the third victim, thus deliberately presenting readers with a distorted picture of the event.

(https://informer.rs/hronika/vesti/1082257/albanski-ekstremista-upucao-dvojicu-srba)

Večernje novosti, although mentioning in some parts of the text that an Albanian was also wounded, does not highlight this fact in the headline, instead pushing it into the background, while placing the emphasis on the political narrative of an “attack on Serbs.”

https://www.novosti.rs/hronika/zlocin/1564481/albanac-pitao-srbi-onda-izvadio-pistolj-zapucao-detalji-horora-decanima-ranjeni-dejan-radovan

The fact that one of the wounded is an Albanian clearly shows that this cannot be described as an exclusively ethnically motivated attack, but rather as a criminal incident, the motives of which have yet to be determined through an institutional investigation. /The Geopost/