The protest titled “Tonight you are shooting at the seams”, which was held in the center of Belgrade near the Serbian Government, ended shortly before 10 p.m. after the police and the Gendarmerie dispersed the demonstrators who clashed with supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) on Kneza Miloša Street.
The incident occurred when pyrotechnics flew between two groups of people gathered, who were separated by a multiple police cordon.
After a brief exchange of pyrotechnics, the police and the Gendarmerie pushed the citizens first towards the Serbian Government building, and then towards Slavija, or Savski Trg.
The police used tear gas-like agents to suppress the citizens, but with less intensity.
At one point, while the police were not at the Serbian government, a minor clash occurred between the demonstrators and a group of masked young men with sticks.
After the action was over, one of the police cordons withdrew to Birčaninova Street, and SNS supporters, who were at the party’s premises, greeted them with applause and cheers.
Small groups of citizens remained in the immediate vicinity of the Serbian government, where the protest began at around 7:30 p.m.
A group of around 500 people returned from the direction of Slavija to the Serbian government at around 10 p.m. and threw stones at the Gendarmerie, but they were pushed back towards that square.
Before the Gendarmerie intervened, the demonstrators threw stones, bottles and pyrotechnics.
Vučić: Less than 3,000 people at the protest in Belgrade, there will be many more arrests than yesterday
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said tonight that there were fewer than 3,100 people at the protests in Belgrade and that there will be many more arrests than yesterday.
“Some of our state bodies are not able to react as needed, but I think it is good that there were no members of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in their party premises tonight,” Vučić said regarding the raid by some demonstrators on the SNS premises in Novi Sad.
He stated that four people were arrested and that one member of the Service for Combating Organized Crime was injured and that the state will react better than it did tonight.
