Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said she does not believe the Russian Federation could be linked to the protests in front of the presidential administration building on February 15, which was planned to assassinate President Aleksandar Vučić. This was reported by the Serbian editionPolicy“.
According to Brnabic, he does not believe that the Russian side is “in any way behind this protest or in any way directly or indirectly supporting these people”.
“These people are self-declared patriots, calling on Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and another state to attack state institutions on the national holiday, Candle Day – State Day. That says enough about what kind of patriots they are, who they have in the first place and which country they have in the first place, and this is definitely not Serbia,” he said.
On February 15, in Sremska Kamenica, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Internal Affairs officers arrested two members of the People’s Patrol movement, who had carbines in their car. According to investigators, they were on their way to Belgrade for a rally of the right-wing radical opposition.
Protesters held Russian and Serbian flags at the rally against the “French-German” plan to resolve the situation in Kosovo. Activist Dejan Petar Zlatanovic chanted “Whoever signs will be killed” and the leader of the “People’s Patrol” movement, Damnyan Knezevic, said that he and his comrades are “ready for more than riots”.
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