Thousands of policemen with armored cars, water cannons, armed with shields, blocked access to streets leading to the seat of government and parliament. Over police helicopter flew region.
Serbian authorities for three years forbade organize Gay Pride for safety reasons, because in 2010, far-right groups attacked the first such parade in Belgrade. In clashes with the police were then wounded approx. 150 people. Agency AP writes, homophobia is widespread in Serbia and the Balkans.
Patriarch: “Shameless assembly”
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irenaeus on Tuesday condemned the planned parade, calling it “a shameless congregation.” He also expressed concerns about safety because of the planned parade and the extreme right-wing counter-demonstrators. He estimated that the parade is imposed “Serbia and Belgrade” with “mentors of Europe”. The clergyman also stressed the costs that related to the protection of the parade has to bear the state. – Because of the absurd, in fact, parading state even when the current poverty spending millions to protect a handful of citizens and their guests in just several hundred parade in the center of Belgrade – said the Patriarch.
EU: Serbian test for human rights
writes the AP, the EU, which in March 2012 granted official candidate status to Serbia, treats the issue of gay parades as a test of whether the country This can ensure respect for human rights.
Premier Aleksandar Vuczić said Thursday that it has no intention to participate in the parade, but showed up on her several ministers and the mayor of Belgrade Sinisza Mali. Mali, who is an ally Vuczicia, said the parade is a “testament to the fact that in Belgrade are all equal.”
According to the AP there was no sign of hooligans and nationalists. He said the agency opponent parade behind a police cordon, “a shame that we have to block the capital to allow hundreds of individuals to demonstrate their perverse tastes.”
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