President Vucic visits Belgrade elementary school where mass shooting took place

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President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic told RTS last evening that during the previous days he visited the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School, where a massacre took place on May 3.

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"I visited the school, but I just don't have the need to apologize to anyone. I didn't take the cameras with me today, they saw me without cameras, with nothing. There were people from security, there was the school principal, several teachers. I signed a book condolences, visited the scene of the crime. It's terrible, a horrible tragedy... But I don't need to justify myself to someone who thinks they have a monopoly on pain and sadness. Nor to explain to someone that I'm a normal person, I have three children and (to explain) how many nights I cried and fought to bring measures and change something," the president told RTS.

The president said that he offered his condolences to everyone individually and that he talks every day about what can be done.

"How can we coordinate a myriad services, what we can do..." said the president.

Speaking about the possibility of shutting down this school, the president said that some parents think so, while other parents and children do not.

"The majority does not think so, but whatever the parents say, we are ready to do. I was shocked, I understand the parents who ask that their children should not go there. I keep thinking about that," said Vucic, but added that children have to go to school.

"Children must continue to live. Children sometimes get over things easier than adults. There are experts who decide about it, not me. What they say, experts and parents, we will do," Vucic said.

The president of Serbia said that we must consider how to proceed.

"The school must continue, whether in this place or another, you say it, we will do it. It's important for us that we started a big campaign to confiscate weapons."

The president of Serbia also spoke about his visit earlier in the day to the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona, where another massacre took place just two days after the school schooting.

(Telegraf.rs)