How the shooting in Decani turned into a propaganda narrative about an “attack on Serbs”

The shooting that occurred in Deçan, where three people were injured – two Serbs and one Albanian, was quickly presented by some pro-government media in Serbia as an ethnically motivated attack on Serbs, although there is no official confirmation of such a claim from the competent institutions in Kosovo.

Official Kosovo Police statements do not state that the motive for the attack was ethnic, nor that the victims were targeted because of their national affiliation.

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The Politika portal claimed in its headline that the attacker had shot "because they were Serbs", imposing a motive without any confirmation, while the fact that an Albanian was injured was completely silenced.

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

A similar approach is taken by Informer , which describes the incident as the work of an “Albanian extremist,” focusing only on the injured Serbs and ignoring the third victim, which offers readers a distorted picture of the event.

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

Although Večernje novosti mentions in some parts of the text that an Albanian was also injured, this fact is not highlighted in the headline, but is left in the background, while the emphasis is placed 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 an Albanian is among the injured clearly shows that we cannot speak of an attack motivated exclusively on ethnic grounds, but of a criminal incident, the motives of which are expected to be clarified through an institutional investigation._The Geopost/