(4 Mar 2025)
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Belgrade, Serbia – 4 March 2025
1. Ambulance arriving in front of parliament
2. Person being taken into an ambulance
3. People gathered in front of parliament
4. People holding banner reading (Serbian): "Corruption kills"
5. Eggs being thrown at the parliament building
6. Broken eggs on the stairs of the parliament
7. Person throwing an egg
8. Various of red carpet in front of the parliament covered with broken eggs and eggshells
9. People waving Serbian flag in front of parliament
10. People in front of the parliament
11. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vera Djurovic, pensioner:
"I am here because of my grandchildren. I wish them a happy and carefree childhood in a normal state. This is not a state."
12. People holding banner reading (Serbian): "Corruption kills"
13. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ljubisa Milenkovic, pensioner:
"I am here to support students, that is the first thing. And the second thing is to show what I think about this parliament and to say that we can not wait any longer. I have been watching these radicals and socialist (parties) for 30 years. And it’s enough. I hope it will be over very soon."
14. People in front of the parliament
15. Various of students arriving to block the streets in front of the parliament
16. People holding 15 minute silence for the victims of roof collapse in Novi Sad, which killed 15 people in November
17. Various of people holding 15 minute silence
STORYLINE:
At least three lawmakers were injured on Tuesday, one of them seriously, after chaotic scenes in Serbia’s parliament, during which smoke bombs and flares were thrown.
Lawmakers were scheduled to vote on a law that would increase funding for university education, but opposition parties said the ruling majority was also planning to approve dozens of other decisions.
They said this was illegal and that lawmakers should first confirm the resignation of Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and his government.
Chaos erupted about an hour after the parliamentary session started, with opposition lawmakers blowing whistles and holding up a banner reading “Serbia has risen so the regime would fall!”
Hundreds of opposition supporters rallied outside the parliament building during the session.
Video footages from the assembly hall showed a clash first between lawmakers and later flares and smoke bombs being thrown.
People were seen throwing eggs and broken eggshells were left behind on the stairs of parliament and the carpet at the front of the building.
Officials later said three persons were injured in the disturbance.
Pensioner Vera Djurovic said she went down to parliament on Tuesday for her grandchildren.
"I wish them a happy and carefree childhood," she said.
Parliament speaker Ana Brnabic, who accused the opposition of being a "terrorist gang," said one of those injured was in a serious condition.
The incident reflects a deep political crisis in the Balkan country where months-long anti-corruption protests have rattled a populist government.
Vucevic resigned the post in January as authorities faced protests over the collapse in November of a concrete canopy in the Serbia’s north that killed 15 people and which critics blamed on rampant corruption.
Parliament must confirm the prime minister’s resignation for it to take effect.
Opposition parties have insisted that the government has no authority to pass new laws.
AP video shot by Ivana Bzganovic
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