Incidents mar anti-fascist gathering

A concert which was a part of an event in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, dubbed Anti-Fascist Festival, was interrupted with a bomb tip-off. The MUP bomb squad in town evacuated and searched the premises last night to determine that the warning was a hoax. Incidents mar anti-fascist gathering The local Cultural Center director, Vladimir Djuric, said he believed the incident, one in a series that happened during the festival, was a provocation. Police secured the area around the center, where the festival is organized, but also a nearby park, where a group of skinheads attacked several of the event's participants on Friday night. Some participants and organizers sought to explain lack of interest for the event from the locals as their fear from the skinhead violence. "This is evident in the fact that 90 percent of people came from elsewhere. Zrenjanin residents didn't come because of neo-Nazi threats… People have come from Georgia, Canada, and they had no problem in doing so, but Zrenjanin residents have a problem," Milan Cekrzin, one of the organizers, commented. The festival, first of its kind, is a two-day event staging concerts from ten "anti-fascist hardcore punk bands", from Serbia and abroad.

Incidents mar anti-fascist gathering

The local Cultural Center director, Vladimir Đurić, said he believed the incident, one in a series that happened during the festival, was a provocation.

Police secured the area around the center, where the festival is organized, but also a nearby park, where a group of skinheads attacked several of the event's participants on Friday night.

Some participants and organizers sought to explain lack of interest for the event from the locals as their fear from the skinhead violence.

"This is evident in the fact that 90 percent of people came from elsewhere. Zrenjanin residents didn't come because of neo-Nazi threats… People have come from Georgia, Canada, and they had no problem in doing so, but Zrenjanin residents have a problem," Milan Čekržin, one of the organizers, commented.

The festival, first of its kind, is a two-day event staging concerts from ten "anti-fascist hardcore punk bands", from Serbia and abroad.