On September 4th, the mayor of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North, Goran Rakić, announced that the Kosovo police and EULEX had informed him of an assassination plot directed at him. The police allegedly have arrested one member of the Kosovo Albanian community involved in the plot. There is now a police car stationed outside the house of the mayor. Mayor Rakić stated that he has full confidence in the Kosovo police to properly handle the situation.

In a separate, unrelated, incident on August 28th, one Kosovo Albanian man was shot and killed, while two others were injured, near Kolloverga/Koshtova, a Kosovo Albanian village close to the Serb-majority municipality of Zubin Potok. One of the victims reported that the shooting was initiated by a man wearing a Serbian army uniform. This incident occurred the day after a member of the Serbian special police unit, the Gendarmerie, was shot and killed near the Kosovo-Serbia border.