Dragan Šormaz, a member of the Main Board of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), said on Friday, May 6, that members of the notorious Russian paramilitary group Wagner, which was put on the list of sanctions by the European Union, participated in the 2020 demonstrations in Belgrade.
"Vagner members participated... that's a fact, because we arrested them," Šormaz said in an interview with the daily newspaper Danas.
Demonstrations in Belgrade in 2020, along with police violence and riots on the streets of Belgrade and several other cities, began in July - after the announcement by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, about the reintroduction of curfew due to the increase in the number of people infected with the COVID-19 virus.
According to the world media, members of the Russian private paramilitary group Wagner are linked to massacres and murders of civilians in Mali and other African countries.
Šormaz also said that a large number of diplomats in the Russian embassy are involved in activities against the interests of Serbia.
"Our services have data on that and it would be easy to react on that issue as well," added the member of the main committee of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
Radio Free Europe (RSE) sent an inquiry to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia on this occasion, but they were not immediately available for comment.
In December 2021, the European Union put the Wagner group on the list of sanctions.
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