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===Arrival of the German troops===
In the early hours of 13 June about 100 German soldiers arrived in [[Prizren]] from [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]] to secure the city for another 600 incoming troops that entered at afternoon from [[Albania]], {{convert|10|mi}} to the west. Earlier, a [[Military of Serbia and Montenegro|Yugoslav Army]] outpost at Vrbnica border crossing, recently vacated by 60 soldiers, was looted and vandalized.<ref name="george">"[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/prizren061499.htm Happy Throng Assails Lingering Serbs]" by John Ward Anderson and Peter Finn. The Washington Post, 14 June 1999</ref> The German soldiers were received as liberators by the ethnic Albanian inhabitants.<ref name="break">Fletcher, Martin (2008). ''Breaking News: A Memoir''. Macmillan, pp. 201–202. {{ISBN|1429974869}}</ref> One of their first tasks was to separate a crowd of Albanian civilians and Yugoslav troops by forming a human line, after the former pelted a convoy of civilian Serbs leaving the city. There was a tense standoff, but eventually a German officer managed to convince the Serbs to withdraw.<ref name="george" /> At the Morinë border crossing, German troops compelled the Serbs to leave the outpost according to schedule when the latter tried to win more time.<ref name="la">[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-17-mn-47462-story.html German Force Savors 'Moral' Postwar Debut] by MrjorieMarjorie Miller. Los Angeles Times, 17 June 1999</ref>
 
==Shooting incident==