(16 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade, Serbia – 16 August 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protesters
2. Flare burning by cars
3. Pan of police , firecrackers going off
4. Riot police firing tear gas before pan to road and tear gas
5. Various of riot police
6. Various of riot police walking, running to trucks
STORYLINE:
Serbian police have fired tear gas at anti-government protesters in downtown Belgrade, Saturday, as they clashed for the fourth day on the streets of the country’s capital amid reports of police brutality and excessive use of force during the unrest.
Police deployed armored vehicles in parts of the capital as protesters faced off against riot police.
The clashes between the police and loyalists of autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic on one side and the anti-government protesters on the other have left dozens injured or detained.
Several social media posts from this week show baton-wielding riot police beating people to the ground and then kicking them with their boots before they were handcuffed. The apparent targets were often women and young people.
Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic denied Friday that police used excessive force, blaming the demonstrators for allegedly attacking the officers, who were protecting themselves with riot shields.
The unrest marked a serious escalation of more than nine months of largely peaceful demonstrations led by Serbia’s university students that have shaken Vucic’s firm grip on power in the Balkan country.
The protests that rattled Vucic first started in November, after the collapse of a renovated train station canopy in Serbia’s north killed 16 people.
Many blame the tragedy on alleged corruption-fueled negligence in state infrastructure projects.
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