About 3,000 ethnic Albanians gathered in Kosovo's capital on Tuesday to protest the killing of a police officer last week, news from Pristina reported.
The demonstrators carried photos of the officer, who was shot dead in a parking lot in a busy part of the town, calling for efforts to fight rampant crime in the southern Serbian province.
"The murder of the police officer was an attack by the organized crime groups," Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku said at the rally, referring to last Thursday's murder of the Kosovo Police Service officer Triumf Riza.
The United Nations administrator Joachim Ruecker released a statement, expressing full support to the protest.
Ruecker called the murder "a heinous crime and a terrible tragedy," saying the outpouring of emotion for the slain officer shows that the people of Kosovo do not accept crime and violence.
Eight people have been arrested in the case, and one has admitted to killing the police officer, it was reported.
Kosovo, where 90 percent of its 2 million people are ethnic Albanians, have been run by the United Nations since 1999 after 78 days of NATO bombing drove out Serbian forces fighting ethnic Albanian rebels.
Source: Xinhua
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