President: Violence must not go unpunished

Photo: Instagram/buducnostsrbijeav

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last night that that violence must not go unpunished and that the country is appalled by incidents in the Serbian National Assembly when deputy Sonja Ilic, who is eight months pregnant, was among those injured.

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"Serbia is appalled by the brutality of politicians who attacked women in the Serbian Assembly just because they think differently. One of those attacked was the pregnant Sonja Ilic from Gracanica. The boy Sonja will give birth to will be called Gavrilo. Let him be his mother's and father's hero! Long live Gavrilo, long live Serbia!," Vucic wrote on his Instagram account "buducnostsrbijeav".

The incidents in the Assembly happened on Monday, as some opposition deputies, dissatisfied with the agenda, started throwing smoke grenades and lighting torches in the hall.

Three deputies, all women, were injured, while Assembly President Ana Brnabic had water poured on her.

Members of the opposition threw various objects at deputies from the "Aleksandar Vucic - Serbia Must Not Stop" parliamentary group and continued to disrupt the work of the Assembly for some time by shouting and blowing into whistles and vuvuzelas.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)