Protests Against Vucic in Belgrade Escalate

Protests against Serbia's President Aleksander Vucic continue, and tensions escalate. On Sunday, protesters tried to enter the presidency during a demonstration provoked by Vucic. They broke through the defensive fence and reached the entrance to the building of the Serbian presidency, Tanjug reported, quoted by BTA.

Later, they made a human chain around the building that President Vucic was in. Opposition leaders urge him to come out to talk to the people.

Later, Vucic left the presidency with his car after a protest, and part of the protesters led by the leaders of the opposition Union for Serbia went to the police station, where five people were arrested for the invasion of the state-run RTS on Saturday.

There are gendarmes in front of the government, and Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

At the time when President Aleksander Vucic began his address, some of the protesters broke through the enclosures and reached the entrance where the gendarmerie stopped them.

Protesters chant "End with him," "Arrest Vucic," "Oliver Ivanovich" (the name of the Kosovo Serb leader whom the opposition claims to have been killed by order of Vucic).

Demonstrators who came to the presidency at the call of Dveri Movement leader Bosko Obradovic at noon when the president announced he would turn to the people broke all the protective facilities around the building, Vucic said. He added that demonstrators are trying to penetrate the building, but that no one should be afraid and the competent services will react.

The street on which the presidency stands was closed, and Borko Stefanovic, one of the opposition's leaders, said "all entrances and exits from the presidency are blocked," the Blic newspaper said.

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