Pristina, Kosovo<br />
Wednesday, March 26, 2008<br />
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KFOR Spokesperson Col. Jean-Luc Cotard<br />
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Col. Cotard: We are not a Police force, we have not the same rules and donít expect that the KFOR soldiers will send flowers when they are shot at. <br />
On Monday, 17 March we were facing rioters and now murderers. I make a very strict distinction between citizens and murderers. Wherever they are, whatever rioters KFOR soldiers will face, KFOR soldiers will be able to respond to any threat with appropriate means, all appropriate means, according to their inherent right of self-defence. <br />
We were attacked, and the best proof is that, as I told last Monday, 17, on many international outlets, we were thrown at and we were attacked with hand grenades, and fortunately, one didnít explode. We know that this hand grenade is a former-Yugoslav made hand grenade known by the name M 75, which is also called ìkasikaraî. This grenade is made of plastic. It contains 3000 stain marbles, 3000 stain marbles, so it is a little weapon. It is used to kill people during an assault, do you understand that? So it was an assault. So we used the appropriate means on that day. <br />
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We made our assessments and we report to SHAPE NATO high level HQ, and the secure with the supreme arrived chief in Europe reported recently with the minister belonging to NATO. For the moment I donít know exactly what the Bucharest Summit will deal with, but I donít know if the main issue of the Bucharest Summit will be the local situation. Of course they will speak about it, but I donít think that it will be the main issue.<br />
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