Jelena Jacimovic

"The mural must go", declared a placard at a protest in the centre of Belgrade on Tuesday sparked by the arrests of two female activists, Aida Corovic and Jelena Jacimovic, who had thrown eggs at a mural of Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in the city.

Djordjo Zujovic, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia, SDP, threw a bucket of paint over a mural of wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in Belgrade on Wednesday, despite continuing police efforts to protect the tribute to the Bosnian Serb war criminal.

Serbian police on Tuesday arrested civic activist Vanja Calovic and illustrator Jelena Jacimovic for throwing eggs at a mural of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic on the wall of a residential building in Belgrade.