By Nick Alipour
(Euractiv)-The European Green Party has denounced threats to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić who said that he would pursue two high-ranking party staff who took part in a government demonstration on Friday evening.
The Serbian police were violently distributed by demonstrators from the University of Novi Sad. The Serbian media reported on the use of tear gas, batons and stun ranates.
Rasmus Nordqvist, a Danish Green-Mdep, and Vula Tsetsi, the co-chair of the Umbrella organization of the European Grünarties, had joined the protests after performing together with the leaders of the Serbian Green Left Front in the national parliament.
Vučić in Nordqvist and Tsetetsi referred to as “foam from the European Green Party … that the violence in Novi Sad” described in a late -time speech after the police introduction to the police introduction to the police introduction.
“I have to tell you that you are prosecuted in accordance with the laws of Serbia,” said Vučić.
The European Green Party condemned its comments on Saturday as “every line of democratic discourse” and undermined the rule of law and freedom of speech in Serbia.
Nordqvist asked the EU institutions to deal with what he described as Vučić's “hug of authoritarianism” in a country that has continued to join the EU candidate.
“There is a serious need to change the Commission and the Council's approach,” said Nordqvist to Euractive. “The citizens of Serbia look at the EU in astonishment.”
The Serbian progressive party of Vučić is a deputy member of the Europa Centerright party, the European People's Party (EPP), the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“The EPP must be clean if it has a car crate in the family,” Nordqvist told Euractive.
The European Parliament is to apply the “wave of violence and continuous violence against demonstrators in Serbia on Tuesday.
Serbia's most persistent protest movement since the Yugoslav era
The protests guided by students last year broke out against local corruption, which suspected that they were behind the collapse of a station roof in Novi Sad, which killed 16. They have been the most ongoing protest movement in Serbia since the collapse of the Yugoslav state.
Demonstrators are calling for early elections and the resignation of Vučić, who has increasingly ruled the country since 2014 – first as Prime Minister and then as President.
The universities were the focus of the activities, and the demonstrators have occupied almost all universities in Serbia since the demonstrations began.
The recent clashes at the University of Novi Sad broke out after the Dean of the Institution forced the demonstrators to clarify the faculty of philosophy almost two weeks ago that they had occupied for nine months.
On Friday evening, the police officers intervened after demonstrators they had gathered with stones and bottles, the Interior Ministry said that 42 people were arrested. Demonstrators have previously accused the authorities of orchestrating violence in order to justify a persistent procedure.
- Magnus Lund Nielsen and Eddy Wax have contributed the reporting