2023-05-09 05:50:18
Von Euronews with DPA/AFP/AP
After a 13-year-old boy went on a rampage at his school, President Vucic has announced a drastic reduction in the use of firearms. But that’s not enough for many. Meanwhile, classes have started again – with a heavy police presence in schools across the country.
In Serbia, schoolchildren are returning to class for the first time after two devastating mass shootings. Police forces are on duty at all 1,800 schools in the country. More than 2,000 officers patrol in and around the school buildings.
“Just hand it in. That’s all”
President Aleksandar Vucic has announced a drastic reduction in the number of guns circulating in the country following the recent shootings. “One of the measures is that we will start confiscating illegal firearms.
People have one month to turn in guns and ammunition without consequences. Nobody will ask how you got these weapons. Just hand them in. That’s all.”
After the killing sprees of a 13-year-old at his school and a 20-year-old in a village near Belgrade with a total of 17 fatalities, people’s anger at the government and the handling of gun violence is growing.
Main initiator of the “Serbian tragedy”
At Porteste, demands for resignation are loud. So has the criticism of state-controlled media that glorified violence and covered up convicted war criminals.
A deomanstrant: “We have to rebuild the system from the ground up, including the education system. I am a mother of two children and I want them to live in better times than me, in the 1990s, 2000s and now”.
A pensioner adds: “The whole atmosphere in society was created by the system, especially by the ‘first man’ who is the main initiator of this Serbian tragedy.”
Serbia has the highest gun ownership per capita in Europe and ranks third in the world. According to estimates, the number of weapons not officially registered is around one and a half million
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