The president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has once again denied the security forces made use of sound cannons to dissolve the anti -government protests last weekend And he has assured that, in case of demonstrating the opposite, he will present his resignation to the position.
«If our forces of the order really used a sound cannon, I will not be president anymore. All the evidence presented demonstrates with absolute clarity that this did not happen», Said the Serbian President in a press conference from Brussels, where tomorrow a summit of the European Union is celebrated.
VUCIC has recognized that Serbia does have this type of devices acquired in the past, but has tried to reduce the matter ensuring that “All countries in the world” have teams of this type. “It has never been used in Serbia,” he said, according to the Serbia RadioTelevision (RTS).
«Everything is clear as water, everything is clear for everyone (…) has never been used anywhere (a sonic cannon), not even a megaphone, because it was not necessary. Everything was calm, there was no need to use it. I repeat: a proof that the canyon was used against the protesters and I will not be president anymore, ”he has riveted.
Nails 107,000 people, According to the Police, they demonstrated this Saturday in Belgrade to remind the fifteen fatalities of the fall of a wall at the Novi Sad train station in November last year, a fact that has become a symbol of popular disenchantment with the lack of transparency of the government.
Mobilizations have been headed mainly by students, But with the passing of the weeks they have incorporated opposition politicians, in what Vucic has denounced as an attempt to kidnap the reasons for protests to transform it into an attack against their government.
Serbian security forces They arrested a dozen supposedly linked people with violent incidents On the night prior to the great concentration, in which security forces used sonic cannons to dissolve the protest, according to the opposition.
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