Dačić: No one allowed to assault police
Interior Minister Ivica Dačić says that protestors who attacked the police were responsible for Tuesday night’s violence.
Thursday, 31.07.2008.
11:40
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says that protestors who attacked the police were responsible for Tuesday night’s violence. Dacic said that the police had been ordered to maintain public order and peace during the protest against the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, and only to intervene if attacked. Dacic: No one allowed to assault police The minister told state broadcaster RTS last night that the police’s job had been to secure state institutions, diplomatic consular headquarters, members of the public, and journalists. He added that the violence had occurred towards the end of the rally, when a group of participators broke away from the crowd and brutally attacked the police with rocks, bats and bottles. Dacic said that several warnings had been issued, but that there had been no other option than to retaliate against the protestors who had attacked the police and caused the incidents. He said that 81 people had been injured in the clashes, 57 of whom were police officers, adding that there had not been an incident where twice as many police officers compared to protesters had been injured since the introduction of the multi-party system in Serbia. The minister said that 19 protesters had been injured, some of them minors, adding that they would all be criminally prosecuted. “Everyone has the right to protest and to state his or her opinion, but I think that it is time people stopped making a hobby out of attacking the police,” Dacic stressed, expressing his regret for what had occurred. Asked about the Serb Radical Party’s statement that the violence had been organized by President Boris Tadic, he said that the most important thing was for political leaders to reach a compromise that would improve citizens’ lives. “We are not getting into who wants to support or bring down who politically, but no one is allowed to assault the police. The police were ordered to show restraint,” Dacic insisted. The minister said that the last government had appointed the top ranking police officials and that some of them had been at the protest, adding that the police’s role was not to change political factors on Serbia’s political scene. Ivica Dacic (FoNet)
Dačić: No one allowed to assault police
The minister told state broadcaster RTS last night that the police’s job had been to secure state institutions, diplomatic consular headquarters, members of the public, and journalists.He added that the violence had occurred towards the end of the rally, when a group of participators broke away from the crowd and brutally attacked the police with rocks, bats and bottles.
Dačić said that several warnings had been issued, but that there had been no other option than to retaliate against the protestors who had attacked the police and caused the incidents.
He said that 81 people had been injured in the clashes, 57 of whom were police officers, adding that there had not been an incident where twice as many police officers compared to protesters had been injured since the introduction of the multi-party system in Serbia.
The minister said that 19 protesters had been injured, some of them minors, adding that they would all be criminally prosecuted.
“Everyone has the right to protest and to state his or her opinion, but I think that it is time people stopped making a hobby out of attacking the police,” Dačić stressed, expressing his regret for what had occurred.
Asked about the Serb Radical Party’s statement that the violence had been organized by President Boris Tadić, he said that the most important thing was for political leaders to reach a compromise that would improve citizens’ lives.
“We are not getting into who wants to support or bring down who politically, but no one is allowed to assault the police. The police were ordered to show restraint,” Dačić insisted.
The minister said that the last government had appointed the top ranking police officials and that some of them had been at the protest, adding that the police’s role was not to change political factors on Serbia’s political scene.
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