The protests in Serbia end up with dozen of prisoners and injuries

Aonda of events shakes the country since last November. The collapse of public work generated accusations of corruption against the government of President Aleksandar Vucic. The Serbian police arrested 42 people in the old avant -garde events that took place on Friday evening in the city of Novi Sad, in the north of the country, with violent clashes that left dozens of injuries.

The police operation to disperse hundreds of agents at dawn. “In total, during the protests of last night, 42 people were arrested or taken. 18 Police vehicles were damaged and the service weapon of a policeman was seized,” said the Interior Minister Ivica Dacic on Saturday (06/09) in declarations at the Serbia RTS public station.

The minister added that 14 police officers were injured and accused the demonstrators of having started the clashes by launching stones and attacks against the agents surrounding the protest. Dacic said it was a “huge and brutal attack”.

According to N1 television station, the event, which brought together several thousand people (between 7,000, according to the government and 20,000, according to the “public meetings archive” of Serbi NGOs), passed peacefully until the police intervened, throwing tear gas against citizens, who were affected by cassettes.

Accusations on both sides

The gas was therefore deliberately launched within two colleges in which the demonstrators took refuge from the brutality of the police.

The live images lived by N1 showed how some citizens took refuge in cars, crying and stating that they did not witness such a type of violence since the authoritarian regime of the deceased Slobodan Milosevic, president of the former Yugoslavia between 1997 and 2000. Dozens of people were injured, according to the sources of the School of Medicine cited by N1, without sending the accident.

The event was convened by the student entities to denounce that the Serbian government has violated the autonomy of the universities, ending the protests that began for months to the faculties of philosophy and sport in Novi Sad.

Protest wave

The protest is part of a massive wave of events, led by students, who has shaken the country since last November. The trigger was the collapse of a marquise at the Novo Sad railway station, which caused the death of 16 people.

The tragedy, which took place on 1 November, has already led to the resignation of the mayor Milan Djuric and the Prime Minister of the country and head of the government, Milos Vucevic.

The case obtained a much larger dimension of criticism against the government, accused of corruption and censorship of the press.

The almost daily events against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic were mostly peaceful. However, in mid -August, they degenerated into violence, which the demonstrators attributed to the heavy hand of the police.

On Friday evening, Vucic accused the demonstrators of having tried to “threaten the stability and safety of Serbia” and “occupy the university structures of Novi Sad”.

“Serbs should know that the state is stronger than anyone else … this will always be like this,” he said. He said that this Sunday have been called events in favor of the government throughout Serbia.

MD (Efe, AFP)

Source: Terra

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