Gasic: Kosovo Albanian mafia supplying weapons to people smugglers in northern Serbia

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said on Thursday organised crime groups smuggling migrants in northern Serbia were assisted by Albanian mafia from Kosovo-Metohija.

"They are not migrants, but organised crime groups we are fighting against. Let's distinguish between migrants and organised crime groups assisted by Albanian mafia coming from our southern province. All weapons are coming from down there," Gasic said at a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new Gendarmerie Command building in Rakovica, Belgrade.

He thanked the Gendarmerie personnel for their engagement in curbing illegal migration in the border cities of Subotica, northern Serbia, and Pirot, southeastern Serbia.