A seven-year-old boy, a first-grade student, was beaten yesterday by a group of Fridays from Elementary School "Svetolik Ranković" in Arandjelovac in the school yard. The boy was taken to the hospital.
The boy was treated for his injuries at the Children's Clinic of the Clinical Center in Kragujevac, and it is unofficially known that his spleen was injured. His condition is stable.
The school confirmed that the police, educational inspectors and representatives of the municipality were informed about yesterday's incident. Due to the incident, misdemeanor charges will be filed against the attacker's parents.
"We have taken all possible measures to solve this case as soon as possible and to punish the perpetrators the most severely. We are in constant contact with the boy's parents and we want him to return to his classroom as soon as possible," the school said on Facebook.
As can be seen in the discussion on that social network, the seven-year-old boy was beaten by five older students of that school, who are in the fifth grade (11 years old).
It is also unofficially stated that one of the group of attackers is "the son of a local policeman", and that there is a possibility that everything was recorded by security cameras in the school yard.
The head of the police department in Kragujevac, Ivan Đorović, said that two fifth-grade students suspected of fighting have been identified, and that misdemeanor charges will be filed against the parents of the boys suspected of beating the champion.
B92 reports that this is just one in a series of increasingly frequent violence in schools. Recently, boys aged between 12 and 15 attacked and beat a professor in Novi Sad.
However, in the wave of peer violence in Serbia, this is the case with the youngest participants - the attacked boy was only seven years old, and the attackers around 11.
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