Members of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia established control, after several hours of clashes with protesters, in the wider area of the Serbian Parliament and established several cordons to prevent protest participants from returning to the parliament building.
After police reinforcements arrived around one hour after midnight, they used tear gas and physical force to repress the demonstrators who were located on Nikola Pašić Square and in Pionirski Park.
One cordon was established near the Abbot's Palace in Terazije, another between the Presidency building and the City Assembly, as well as at the intersection near the London building and in other places.
Around midnight, police officers signed the demonstrators from the plateau in front of the Serbian Parliament.
Groups of demonstrators clashed with members of the police around the Serbian Parliament, who were stationed near the buildings of the Presidency and the Belgrade City Assembly.
Members of the Police Brigade who were in front of the Serbian Parliament building at one point received reinforcements from members of the Gendarmerie and formed a cordon towards Nikola Pašić Square, towards Pionirski Park and towards King Aleksandar Boulevard.
The police in front of the Serbian Parliament fired dozens of tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.
A high fence was erected in front of the RTS building, and the police fired several rounds of tear gas at the demonstrators in that part as well.
The largest number of demonstrators, who gathered in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade on Tuesday evening, left the plateau in front of the parliament building shortly before midnight after the police intervened with a large amount of tear gas.
The protest started around 21 p.m. after the announcement by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, that a state of emergency would be introduced in Belgrade, and possibly in other Serbian cities as well.
A major conflict occurred around 23.30:XNUMX p.m. when protesters threw stones and torches at the police, after which the police intervened and fired several dozen rounds of tear gas.
The largest part of the crowd retreated from the plateau in front of the parliament building towards the fountain on Nikola Pašić Square and Pionirski Park, as well as towards Kralja Aleksandra Boulevard and Kosovska Street.
One group of protest participants continued to clash with the police, throwing stones, bottles...
The police responded with new tear gas, and around 23.45:XNUMX p.m., several Hummer vehicles of the Belgrade Police Brigade came from the direction of Kneza Miloša Street.
The Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabić, said that "I strongly condemn the vandalism of the police officers who are behind the violent invasion of the Serbian Parliament at a time when the country is struggling with the pandemic".
A group of protesters who managed to break into the building of the Serbian Parliament was thrown out.
In front of the Assembly building, the police set up a cordon and, as reported by N1, they are not reacting even though the crowd is throwing stones, bottles at them...
The police throw tear gas, after which the gathered retreat until the air clears and return to the front of the Assembly building.
The demonstrators are slowly retreating and leaving the plateau in front of the Serbian Parliament building and moving towards the RTS building, where there are no police officers. There are several dozen demonstrators in front of the RTS building.
Previously, when the gathered started to return to the assembly, the police threw tear gas. They stand on the steps of the assembly and do not allow the protesters to approach the parliament.
Police threw stun grenades at protesters who gathered in front of the Serbian Parliament building in Belgrade to express their dissatisfaction with the announcement that a curfew would be introduced on Friday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The police threw dozens of tear gas canisters. Citizens took refuge in Pionirski Park, the park behind the assembly and towards Nikola Pašić Square, coughing, crying, looking for water to wash their eyes from tear gas.
Demonstrators in front of the Serbian Parliament briefly clashed again with the gendarmerie shortly before 23 p.m., who set up a cordon on the upper part of the stairs outside the entrance to the building.
The police used tear gas or pepper spray. There are injured people with bloody heads among the demonstrators. The demonstrators retreated from the upper part of the staircase and the situation calmed down.
In front of the Serbian Parliament, there are several thousand people, positioned between Nikola Pašić Square and the Main Post Office building. Traffic is stopped in that section.
Police officers in riot gear kicked out a group of demonstrators who entered the Serbian Parliament building after 22 p.m. tonight.
During that action, policemen and demonstrators clashed. The demonstrators claimed that one of them was arrested, and the policemen claimed that the demonstrators were throwing bottles and cans at them.
Demonstrators chanted "betrayal, betrayal" and sang "Oj Kosovo Kosovo", "thieves, thieves", "Resignation, resignation" and an insult to Vučić, while they chanted to the policemen to drop their shields.
Former MP for Dveri Srđan Nogo told TV N1 that he did not know whose supporters were gathered and that "one sick person who is destroying the entire nation should be dealt with here."
Nogo appeared on the plateau in front of the Assembly at the beginning of the protest after 20 pm, but the crowd chanted "Nogo go home" at him.
Radomir Lazović from the initiative Ne davimo Beograd, stated that the cause of this spontaneous protest was accumulated dissatisfaction with the authorities in Serbia, but said that his organization does not call for mass gatherings due to the danger of the coronavirus.
Among the several thousand gathered, there are both leftists and rightists, and nationalist songs such as "Get together, get together, Cetinics" were also heard.
In Novi Sad, a protest rally due to the announced measures
Several dozen citizens of Novi Sad protested tonight in the city center after the announcement of the introduction of a state of emergency in Belgrade, and perhaps in other cities of Serbia.
Citizens gathered in Trg Republike after a call on social networks to protest.
They walked to Freedom Square, where they stayed for a while in front of the city hall, and then a few of them went to the City Assembly, where they pasted stickers that read "healing".
Then they went to the premises of the Serbian Progressive Party in the city center and also pasted stickers over the posters of party president Aleksandar Vučić and mayor Miloš Vučević.
The rally started at 21:XNUMX p.m., after the address of Vučić, who announced the measures.
A new protest has been announced for tomorrow at 18 pm in Novi Sad.
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