Quarantine in Serbian

How isolation brought the inhabitants of Belgrade to the assault on parliament

The President of the Republic of Vuchich on the evening of July 7 announced the return of commandant’s one in Belgrade to the next weekend, this led hundreds to the streets of the city, and then thousands of people. Belgrade (and after them all Serbia) had already raped from Friday evening until Monday morning in their homes during the first phase of the fight against coronavirus, and then a full -forming commandant hour seemed to them a difficult test. Now, when everything seemed to be behind people could not stand the nerves.

At first they gathered at the parliament building and behaved calmly. But peaceful protests have different development. The crowd set fire to police cars and took up the cobblestones. Marking damage was caused to urban infrastructure, including the famous Belgrade paving stones. “The police used force with maximum restraint,” said Vladimir Rebich, head of the capital's police. The police used tear gas only after the crowd tried to storm the parliament - a small group managed to break inside, but it was quickly erased. As a result, 23 people were detained, 43 police officers and 17 protesters turned to medical help.

“There will be no compromise with criminals; We have evidence of the involvement of foreign services, ”the B92 TV channel summed up the sharp performance of Vucich, the first after the events.

“Last night in Belgrade we witnessed the most cruel political violence in recent years,” he said on July 8. “Right radicals attacked the building of the National Assembly, which means committing at least two crimes. All those who took part in the arson of cars and the attack on the police will be punished and there will be no mercy, ”the president summed up. - The authorities are always ready for political compromises and negotiations, but it will not allow anyone to destroy the world in Serbia. This applies to those who are inside the country, and those who are beyond its borders. ”

The President of Serbia also made it clear that the decision to introduce a commandant’s day may not be final, although he personally plays precisely for him.

Some information agencies, first of all, Russian, tried to make out the initiators of the riots in the ranks of the Serbian political opposition, which, announcing the boycott of the parliamentary elections that took place on June 21, actually self -entrusted from the open political struggle, none of its leaders on the events of yesterday evening was noticed.

It is interesting that the Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia Neboish Stefanovich, who is quoted by the Belgrade “evening news”, sharply criticizing the “actions of the hooligans”, has never used the term “opposition” and did not go personal. His first statement about the riots is designed for emotional perception: “A group of aggressive hooligans showed no respect”, the police “did their job” and so on.

The head of the police of Belgrade Rebich, according to the Tanyug agency, refused to qualify the riots as an attempt to overthrow the government.

To identify the personalities of participants in the riots, entries from surveillance cameras will be used.

The troubles inside the country need Vuchich in the last turn. Firstly, he has to form a government, and although his progressive party, having gained more than 60 percent of the votes in the elections, can do what he wishes, the president wants to seem a European and has already promised unexpected appointments in the government. At heart, he understands that the many years of the opposition (despite the fact that it is definitely not constructive here) leaves a bad precipitate in the minds of voters.

In addition, on the nose, this Sunday, the resumption of negotiations in Brussels about the Kosovo settlement - at the highest of available levels: the president of Serbia meets the Prime Minister Kosovo. And here Vucich can be in wait for other dangers: there is no such political camp in Serbia, from which he would not be criticized for attempts to solve the Kosovo problem, that is, in one form or another to recognize Kosovo as a full -fledged member of the international community. Yesterday, the parliament chanted not only “resignation!”, But also “traitor!”, It was Kosovo meant.

Well, the European Union was not long in coming. The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Dunya Miyatovich (citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina) said that the brutal overclock of the demonstrators in Belgrade "causes serious concern."