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Today, Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SAA), Borko Stefanović, questioned the statement of the US Ambassador, Anthony Godfrey, on the actions of the police in Serbia during the July demonstrations.
Photo: EPA-EFE / KOCA SULEJMANOVICIn a meeting with Serbia’s new Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin on Wednesday, Godfrey said his ministry’s conduct during the July protests in Belgrade said he “appreciates the restraint shown by the police officers.”
The SAA announced that Stefanović declared today that on July 7 the citizens of Serbia demonstrated “without reconciling with the repression of the Vučić regime, trying to imprison us all without any justification, and due to the general situation in our country.”
Stefanovic recalled that at that time, “Serbian police forces, parapolice forces, fanatics and people without any police insignia, repressed, beat, beat Serbian citizens, indiscriminately fired tear gas in all directions and committed violence against journalists.”
“Ambassador Godfrey, what did the Serbian police hide in the photos?” Are these the bloody heads of the citizens of Serbia? Is that the necklace on the citizens of Serbia that night? Is this restrained, when four policemen trample and hit a defenseless citizen lying on the ground? It is the containment of the special combat vehicles of the Serbian police that were driven into the streets, firing tear gas in all directions where people were suffocating and in their apartments. “Is it the containment of the Serbian police when the Vučić vigilante forces without a badge trample a man on the head while he was lying helpless on the ground?” Stefanović asked.
Stefanovic affirmed that “there is no moderation” in that, and recalled the report of the European Commission, which says that “public order must be guaranteed, but all use of force must be measured and proportional in each situation and at all times” .
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