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Shooting and Tent Fire at Pro-Vučić Camp Outside Serbian Parliament Injures One

Vucic labeled the episode a terrorist attack.

Overview

  • One person was wounded and taken for urgent surgery after shots were fired and a tent burned at the loyalist encampment outside parliament in Belgrade.
  • State broadcaster RTS reported one detention, and firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, according to AFP.
  • Police had not issued a formal account of the incident, though footage showed popping sounds like gunfire before flames engulfed a tent.
  • Vucic showed video at a press event and said the suspect confessed to provoking police to kill him and to being irritated by the tents.
  • The tents form a months-old pro-government camp set up during sustained anti-government protests over accountability and elections.