MUP bans Nikolić party rally

Serbian police, MUP, cited security concerns when they banned a Serb Progressive Party (SNS) rally in Hrtkovci today, Beta reports. The SNS, a Serb Radical Party (SRS) offshoot led by Tomislav Nikolic, is campaigning in that and a number of other Vojvodina towns in the area, ahead of local elections there. MUP bans Nikolic party rally Today in Belgrade, SNS deputy leader Aleksandar Vucic told a news conference that he had received this information officially from MUP and the security agency BIA. "We are asking MUP and BIA to say who wished to endanger whose security, who wants bloodshed and who perhaps wanted to create a human slaughterhouse," he said, and confirmed his party will obey the police order. The rally in Ruma was scheduled for Nov. 9, while today a large number of SRS activists gathered in Hrtkovci, saying it was an campaign rally of their own, that would end before 16:00 CET. The SNS gathering was set to start an hour later. Vucic commented that while he has information "about what could have happened in Hrtkovici", he would not reveal it, and stressed police and BIA should do that "tomorrow at noon". When asked whether SRS leader Vojislav Seselj "stood behind the potential incidents", Vucic repeated that official institutions must say who is to blame. "Perhaps someone didn't take kindly to my announcement that I will travel to Knin, while I do not think that people should die for Split and Makarska," Vulcic, until recently the SRS secretary general, said. Vucic speaks in a news conference (FoNet)

MUP bans Nikolić party rally

Today in Belgrade, SNS deputy leader Aleksandar Vučić told a news conference that he had received this information officially from MUP and the security agency BIA.

"We are asking MUP and BIA to say who wished to endanger whose security, who wants bloodshed and who perhaps wanted to create a human slaughterhouse," he said, and confirmed his party will obey the police order.

The rally in Ruma was scheduled for Nov. 9, while today a large number of SRS activists gathered in Hrtkovci, saying it was an campaign rally of their own, that would end before 16:00 CET.

The SNS gathering was set to start an hour later.

Vučić commented that while he has information "about what could have happened in Hrtkovici", he would not reveal it, and stressed police and BIA should do that "tomorrow at noon".

When asked whether SRS leader Vojislav Šešelj "stood behind the potential incidents", Vučić repeated that official institutions must say who is to blame.

"Perhaps someone didn't take kindly to my announcement that I will travel to Knin, while I do not think that people should die for Split and Makarska," Vulčić, until recently the SRS secretary general, said.