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Related: About this forumSerbia Seems To Relent On Coronavirus Curfew After Violence Erupts In Belgrade
Source: NPR
Serbia Seems To Relent On Coronavirus Curfew After Violence Erupts In Belgrade
July 8, 2020 3:12 PM ET
COLIN DWYER
Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET
The curfew in Serbia appears to have ended before it could even begin.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić suggested Wednesday that the country would "probably" not reinstate a curfew this weekend, less than a day after its announcement led to bloodshed in the capital. The country's health ministry clarified that officials have yet to make a final decision, even as new cases have surged.
Demonstrators gathered overnight in Belgrade to protest the coronavirus-prevention measure, some clashing with police outside parliament and even trying to storm the building.
Dozens of people were injured in the violence, which Vučić blamed primarily on "right-wing and pro-fascist demonstrators." He also said the Serbian government has evidence without presenting any that foreign intelligence officials were goading on the violence in an effort to destabilize Serbia.
Video on local media shows law enforcement resorting to the use of tear gas and a show of force that many observers criticized as excessive. Social media were awash with images of officers clubbing and roughly arresting protesters though Vučić defended the police actions.
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July 8, 2020 3:12 PM ET
COLIN DWYER
Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET
The curfew in Serbia appears to have ended before it could even begin.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić suggested Wednesday that the country would "probably" not reinstate a curfew this weekend, less than a day after its announcement led to bloodshed in the capital. The country's health ministry clarified that officials have yet to make a final decision, even as new cases have surged.
Demonstrators gathered overnight in Belgrade to protest the coronavirus-prevention measure, some clashing with police outside parliament and even trying to storm the building.
Dozens of people were injured in the violence, which Vučić blamed primarily on "right-wing and pro-fascist demonstrators." He also said the Serbian government has evidence without presenting any that foreign intelligence officials were goading on the violence in an effort to destabilize Serbia.
Video on local media shows law enforcement resorting to the use of tear gas and a show of force that many observers criticized as excessive. Social media were awash with images of officers clubbing and roughly arresting protesters though Vučić defended the police actions.
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/08/888948015/serbia-seems-to-relent-on-coronavirus-curfew-after-violence-erupts-in-belgrade
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Serbia Seems To Relent On Coronavirus Curfew After Violence Erupts In Belgrade (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2020
OP
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. Related thread with videos
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. and a reminder that Giuliani was Vucic's consultant!
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)3. Where's that lose, Bannon?
sandensea
(21,528 posts)4. "right-wing and pro-fascist demonstrators"
How predictable.
World leaders can't let those knuckle-draggers arm-twist them into making the Covid policy they want - which, of course, is none at all.
In Argentina - where one of the world's earliest and toughest stay-home orders (March 19) helped the country avoid the public health disaster currently assailing neighboring Brazil, Chile, and Peru - the president and the mayor of Buenos Aires relented in May after a few wingnut protests (mostly Macri's old voters).
And now they're having a very hard time containing it in the Buenos Aires metro area - which has become a hotspot (3,000 cases a day, for 14 million people).
The moral of the story? Let the hotheads pound sand.
Argentine anti-lockdown protest leader José Spotorno (right) and far-right Congressman Fernando Iglesias.
Spotorno, 74, later caught Covid-19, and died last week.