Several Serb politician and analysts have accused Serb leaders in Mitrovica for stoking the violence of the recent week and the government in Belgrade for failing to prevent it.

Government in Belgrade controls some and Serb opposition parties other parallel security bodies in Mitrovica.

Dusan Janjic, a Belgrade-based analyst who leads the Forum for Interethnic Relations, said that Serb President Boris Tadic should "establish order" amongst the Serbian community in Kosovo.

Janjic said that only Kosovo Police passed the test in northern Mitrovica.

"All others - KFOR, EULEX, and the so called parallel police have failed miserably," said Janjic. He added that it is in the interest of some security institutions not to have security in the north and to continuously have tensions, in order for them to show that it cannot be done without them.

Meanwhile Kosovo Serb Oliver Ivanovic said that Serb government had failed to change some key players in Mitrovica. Both Janjic and Ivanovic seem to allude to extremist Kosovo Serb leaders who run their own security groups and whose main political allegiances are with the former Serb PM.

"KFOR should have visible presence, because this acts as prevention and demotivates all those that are armed, while in this town there are more weapons than are needed," stated Oliver Ivanovic for Radio KIM.

KFOR North Sector commander Michael Yakoleff and EULEX Police commander Rainer Kuhn expressed disappointment for being denied entry to the Mitrovica hospital, “to visit the six wounded Serb firefighters.” Mitrovica Healthcare Center is led by Milan Ivanovic who is suspected of running the parallel security structures, with a communication center located inside the hospital.

President of the Serbian National Council in Kosovo, Rada Trajkodic, said that Serbs themselves are responsible for the latest incidents.

Trajkovic said, "Serbs threw the bomb on the firefighters and Serbs attacked the television team, injured the journalist and damaged the camera, destroying the material filmed that night."

Trajkovic added that the citizens in the northern part of Mitrovica "are very worried by people from their own community, who are obviously instrumentalized."

Two more people were attacked on Sunday night in northern Mitrovica, Kosovo Police reported. The car they were driving had the windows smashed and one of them was taken to hospital with light wounds. The police had to wait until the next day to take the reports since the two were inebriated.  

Kosovo Government has set aside EUR 100,000 to fix the damages occurred in the last week.