Tens of hundreds of Serbs joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Saturday, blaming a tradition of violence for the deaths of 18 individuals in two mass shootings and calling on the inside minister to resign. The protest marked the one-month anniversary of the nation’s first college taking pictures on May 3, when a youngster killed ten in an elementary college. In the second taking pictures on May 4, a 21-year-old man killed eight in a city exterior Belgrade.

In response to the shootings, the federal government introduced college summer time holidays would begin on June 6, two weeks sooner than deliberate. Opposition events which organised the protest – the fifth within the house of a month – say the federal government of President Aleksandra Vucic has did not sort out the promotion of violence within the media and allowed it to permeate society.

Recent Serbian actuality TV reveals have featured convicted criminals, together with murderers, and proven males beating up ladies. Protesters on Saturday shouted “Vucic leave,” and held up banners with the slogan “Serbia against violence”.

Nenad Hadzi Maricic, an actor who was the primary speaker on the occasion, voiced the protesters’ calls for which embody the dismissal of Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic and Secret Service Chief Aleksandar Vulin in addition to the quick halt of all TV programmes that promote violence. Vucic denies the allegations and says the federal government must be challenged in an election. Pink TV has pledged to cease airing a actuality present which incorporates a man convicted of homicide from subsequent week.

“We must remain persistent in our demands,” Aleksandar Saran, one of many protesters instructed Reuters. “Our demands are not abstract, we just want to live in a healthy environment.”

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