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Kosovo asks NATO to airlift a Serb detainee as tensions rise

A banner reading “Kurti, Kosovo is not your turf it is our ancestral land” is seen as local Serbs carry a protest against the government near a roadblock in Rudare, near the northern part of the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, December 22, 2022. REUTERS/Miodrag Draskic

(This Dec. 22 story has been corrected to say that police officers were transported by NATO via ground routes, not by helicopter, in paragraph 7)

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo has asked NATO troops to airlift a former Serb policeman who was detained two weeks ago but could not be transferred elsewhere because local Serbs demanding his release set up barricades to prevent him being moved.

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