11 Oct 2010 / 09:48
City workers continue to clean up downtown Belgrade after Sunday's clashes between police and anti-gay protesters. Broken shop windows and smashed cars are a reminder of the street battles that broke out following the gay pride parade.
Bojana Barlovac
Workers have been repairing damage to traffic signals since 3pm yesterday and the repair work is expected to be completed on Monday, according to a statement from the city's administration.
Thousands of hooligans and skinheads attacked police in downtown Belgrade on Sunday as they tried to disrupt the city’s Pride Parade, leaving one hundred people injured and causing one million EUR of damage.A large number of rioters were arrested following the clashes. Slobodan Homen, state secretary in the Ministry of Justice, said Sunday night that police had arrested some 250 rioters and that arrests would continue on Monday.
One of the arrested includes Mladen Obradovic, head of the right-wing organisation Obraz, which is believed to have been behind the organisation of the incidents in downtown Belgrade on Sunday. Participation in the violent riots is punishable by imprisonment of one to eight years in prison, Homen added.A request by the country's Justice Ministry and Prosecutor's Office to ban right-wing organisations, whose members represented the majority of rioters, is still on the shelves at the Constitutional Court."I believe that the banning of these institutions and preventing their actions is the only right way [to proceed]," Homen told broadcaster B92.
Workers have been repairing damage to traffic signals since 3pm yesterday and the repair work is expected to be completed on Monday, according to a statement from the city's administration.
Thousands of hooligans and skinheads attacked police in downtown Belgrade on Sunday as they tried to disrupt the city’s Pride Parade, leaving one hundred people injured and causing one million EUR of damage.A large number of rioters were arrested following the clashes. Slobodan Homen, state secretary in the Ministry of Justice, said Sunday night that police had arrested some 250 rioters and that arrests would continue on Monday.
One of the arrested includes Mladen Obradovic, head of the right-wing organisation Obraz, which is believed to have been behind the organisation of the incidents in downtown Belgrade on Sunday. Participation in the violent riots is punishable by imprisonment of one to eight years in prison, Homen added.A request by the country's Justice Ministry and Prosecutor's Office to ban right-wing organisations, whose members represented the majority of rioters, is still on the shelves at the Constitutional Court."I believe that the banning of these institutions and preventing their actions is the only right way [to proceed]," Homen told broadcaster B92.
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