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The Socialist Movement, the party of the new Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin, reported tonight that it rejected the criticism of the Vice President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SAA) Borko Stefanovic, who today questioned the assessment of the US Ambassador Anthony Godfrey on the actions “moderate” police in Serbia July demonstrations.
Photo: BETA / MUP SRBIJE / MO)In a meeting with Vulin on Wednesday, as his ministry said at the time, Godfrey said of the police actions during the July protests in Belgrade that he “appreciates the restraint shown by the police officers.”
However, Stefanovic said today, the SAA said, that on July 7, Serbian citizens went to a demonstration “rebelling against the repression of the Vucic regime”, and that “Serbian police forces, vigilante forces, fanatics and people without no police insignia, they repressed, beat, beat the citizens of Serbia, indiscriminately fired tear gas in all directions and committed acts of violence against journalists. “
Vulin said tonight that “Ambassador Godfrey spoke the truth: the police were restrained while defending the National Assembly and their lives,” while “Serbia was sad and worried, and the enemies of Serbia were delighted with the photos of the police. bloody serbia and the fire in front of the National Assembly “.
“Ambassador Godfrey had the courage to tell the truth and that is why we owe him gratitude, but also an apology because in Serbia anyone who tells the truth and anyone who does not attack Serbia is immediately spit on and attacked by Djilas’ media or their party employees, “he said. Minister.
Vulin said he “understands Stefanovic’s anger that the hooligans did not bring him to power a second time, but in Vucic-led Serbia, power was won at the polls, not on the street.”
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