Overview

• Violence began Tuesday in Vrbas and spread to around 90 locations as students and ruling-party supporters faced off outside SNS offices.
• Government supporters were filmed throwing flares, rocks and bottles at demonstrators who retaliated with projectiles and paint.
• Activists in Novi Sad vandalized and demolished local SNS headquarters by smashing windows, removing furniture and splashing red paint.
• Police, gendarmerie and military units were deployed to separate rival camps, and one military police officer fired a warning shot into the air.
• EU Commissioner Marta Kos and UN human rights experts cautioned that the intensifying crackdown and mass arrests risk undermining Serbia’s EU accession bid.