BELGRADE - Tens of thousands of Serbs joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Saturday (June 3), blaming a culture of violence for the deaths of 18 people in two mass shootings and calling on the interior minister to resign. The protest marked the one-month anniversary of the country's first school shooting on May 3, when a teenager killed ten...
BELGRADE - Tens of thousands of Serbs joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Saturday , blaming a culture of violence for the deaths of 18 people in two mass shootings and calling on the interior minister to resign.
In response to the shootings, the government announced school summer holidays would start on June 6, two weeks earlier than planned. Recent Serbian reality TV shows have featured convicted criminals, including murderers, and shown men beating up women. Nenad Hadzi Maricic, an actor who was the main speaker at the event, voiced the protesters' demands which include the dismissal of Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic and Secret Service Chief Aleksandar Vulin as well as the immediate halt of all TV programmes that promote violence.