(13 Aug 2025)
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Belgrade, Serbia – 13 August 2025
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1. Various of protesters walking down street
2. Various of protesters standing face to face with riot police
3. Various of Gendarmerie officers
4. Protesters and Gendarmes on street
5. People pelting Gendarmerie officers with water bottles after they tried to detain a person
6. Gendarmerie officers leading a detained man away
7. Pan from protesters leaving the scene to riot police
8. Protesters walking towards a separate riot police cordon
9. Protesters running as police advance1
10. Riot police and protesters on street
11. Various of riot police on street
STORYLINE:
Clashes erupted between Serbian anti-government protesters and supporters for a second day Wednesday in a major escalation after more than nine months of persistent demonstrations against autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic.
Cordons of riot police squared off against protesters in Belgrade and used to tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowds.
At one point demonstrators threw water bottles at the police after they attempted to make an arrest.
Thousands more gathered in other parts of the country, including in the northern city of Novi Sad, near the offices of Vucic’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said at least one policeman was injured there and called for the “return of law and order.”
Serbia’s president, other government officials and pro-government media have repeatedly described the protesters as “terrorists,” though protests in Serbia since November have been largely peaceful.
Led by university students, the protesters are demanding that Vucic call an early parliamentary election, which he has refused to do.
Protesting students have also called for the ouster of Dacic, the interior minister, over recent violence at demonstrations.
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