Serbian police clash with anti-government protesters
The Serbian police clashed with anti -government protesters demanding Snap elections and the 12 -year administration of President Aleksandar Vucic was terminated.
In the rebellion equipment, the officers assigned civil servants, government buildings, Parliament and near Pionirski Park, where Vucic’s supporters gathered in a counter protest where their supporters came together from all over the country.
After the protest ended, some of the people who want to face Vucic’s fans, Belgrade in various places in the city center of Belgrade, the police used the police, rock and firecrackers threw.
The protesters shouted: “Keep shields below”, calling for the police to stop intervening.
Police, several dozen demonstrators detained, Police Director Dragan Vasiljevic, Saturday in a press conference lately in a press conference reportedly injured in the clashes.
Vuci said the protesters were trying to overthrow the state. “They wanted to overthrow Serbia and they failed,” he wrote on the Instagram page.
In a statement, the students accused the government of increasing tensions.
Students X on the social media platform “They (authorities) … They chose violence and pressure against people. Every radicalization of the situation is their responsibility.”
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that the police would act to maintain public order.
“The police will take all measures to create public order and peace … And he will apply all his powers to repel the attacks and arrest everyone who attacks the police.” He said.
Throughout the country, including university closures, protests for months shook Vucic, a populist, which ended in 2027 and also planned parliamentary elections.
Vucic’s rivals accuse him and his allies of organized crime, violence against competitors and preventing the freedom of media, something they deny.
In the early hours of Saturday, the vuci said that the “non -foreign forces” were behind the protest. He warned that the police should be restricted, but violence would not be tolerated.
“The country will be defended and bandits will face justice,” he said to journalists in Belgrade.
37 -year -old Sadjana Lojanovic, a farmer from Sid town in the North, said he came to support students.
“Institutions have been usurped and … There is a lot of corruption. Elections solution, but I do not think he will want to go peacefully.”
In the days after the protest, the police arrested an anti -government activist and accused them of weakening the constitution and terrorism. They all refused the charges.
The Belgrade Rally coincides with the St Vitus Day, respected by most Serbs who celebrated the 1389 Kosovo War with the Ottoman Turks.
