Minister Stevanovic: Tear gas canisters that police don't use found after protest in Belgrade

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Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said today that tear gas canisters that the Serbian Interior Ministry, MUP, doesn't use have been found in the area around the National Assembly of Serbia in the wake of a protest earlier this week.

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"We found some canisters that are not used by the police and we will determine who the manufacturer is, how they might have ended up there, who used them, and we will get to those people as well," Stefanovic told TV Pink.

The minister stressed that these persons obviously came prepared, with tear gas, and added that it was not logical for protesters to throw tear gas at the police who wear gas masks and whom tear gas cannot affect.

He added that these people came to create chaos and that it is clear this was not at all about some democratic reasons.

The initial assessment of the damage from the Belgrade protest, not taking into account damage to private property, amounts to more than one million euros, said Stefanovic.

He also said that 118 police officers have been injured in the previous three days, as well as that more than 150 people had been detained.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)