All public gatherings prohibited in city center

Police have prohibited all public gatherings in the center of Belgrade for security reasons.

Izvor: B92

Sunday, 20.09.2009.

09:40

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Police have prohibited all public gatherings in the center of Belgrade for security reasons. Though the ultra-nationalist Movement 1389 announced that it would hold a rally on Sunday, police were quick to stop it from materializing. All public gatherings prohibited in city center At about 8:00 CET, several dozen organization members gathered in front of the Philosophy Faculty and were asked to show identification to undercover police officers. Police units were securing the park across the street from the Faculty and several other locations in the center of Belgrade. Belgrade police arrested the organizer of a gathering held by 1389 on Saturday, Radojko Ljubicic, who tried to hold a rally on Belgrade’s main city square despite the police ban. After the cancellation of the Pride Parade and prohibiting the 1389 rally on Saturday, police have stated that all such public demonstrations in Belgrade are to be prohibited for security reasons. B92 has unofficial information that the prohibition is related only to gatherings that have indications that they could endanger public order and peace. Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said that this decision was made because there is a high threat of potential acts of violence currently. “We prohibited all gatherings in the center of the city because we have evaluated that it would not be a parade but a place of violent acts,” Dacic said. Political analyst Bogoljub Milosavljevic said that with this decision, the Interior Ministry has admitted that it is incapable of dealing with these kinds of risks. “I assume that a ban was put on all gatherings so that one specific gathering would not be named, in order to stop the effects and damage of this measure,” he said. 1389 stated that it would hold a rally on Sunday morning in honor of the cancellation of the Pride Parade. Misa Vacic, who said he was the spokesperson of this organization, said that 1389 members would gather to celebrate the cancellation of the Pride Parade. Belgrade police also stated that they would not allow 1389 to hold its daily gatherings at the main square, Trg Republike, until September 27. (Beta archive)

All public gatherings prohibited in city center

At about 8:00 CET, several dozen organization members gathered in front of the Philosophy Faculty and were asked to show identification to undercover police officers.

Police units were securing the park across the street from the Faculty and several other locations in the center of Belgrade.

Belgrade police arrested the organizer of a gathering held by 1389 on Saturday, Radojko Ljubičić, who tried to hold a rally on Belgrade’s main city square despite the police ban.

After the cancellation of the Pride Parade and prohibiting the 1389 rally on Saturday, police have stated that all such public demonstrations in Belgrade are to be prohibited for security reasons.

B92 has unofficial information that the prohibition is related only to gatherings that have indications that they could endanger public order and peace.

Interior Minister Ivica Dačić said that this decision was made because there is a high threat of potential acts of violence currently.

“We prohibited all gatherings in the center of the city because we have evaluated that it would not be a parade but a place of violent acts,” Dačić said.

Political analyst Bogoljub Milosavljević said that with this decision, the Interior Ministry has admitted that it is incapable of dealing with these kinds of risks.

“I assume that a ban was put on all gatherings so that one specific gathering would not be named, in order to stop the effects and damage of this measure,” he said.

1389 stated that it would hold a rally on Sunday morning in honor of the cancellation of the Pride Parade.

Miša Vacić, who said he was the spokesperson of this organization, said that 1389 members would gather to celebrate the cancellation of the Pride Parade.

Belgrade police also stated that they would not allow 1389 to hold its daily gatherings at the main square, Trg Republike, until September 27.

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