Serbia police clashed with the demonstrators who are calling for early elections

The Serbian police clashed with a large crowd of anti -government demonstrators who are calling for early elections and ending President Alexander Fuzic has ruled for 12 years In the capital, Belgrade.

Bahr has a gathering of about 140,000 demonstrators in the city, which is the largest turnout in recent months, as the demonstrations that students lead are pressing on the popular government. “We want the elections!” The crowd chanted.

Dozens were arrested, as the riot police that shoots on tear gas and thunderbolt bombs witnessed.

President Vcic accused the demonstrators who are calling for being part of a foreign conspiracy trying to rape his country. “They wanted to overthrow Serbia, and they failed,” he wrote on Instagram page.

On Friday, five people, accused of planning to overthrow the government, were arrested, according to a statement issued by the Supreme Court in Serbia in Belgrade.

After the clashes, the police minister condemned the force of violence by the demonstrators and said that the officials would be arrested.

The most famous protests Throughout the country – including the closure of the university – it rocked Mr. Vocic, whose second term ends in 2027 when there are also parliamentary elections.

Sladjana Lojanovic, 37, a farmer from the city of SID in the north, said it came to support students.

“The institutions have been raped and … there is a lot of corruption,” she told Reuters.

The President previously rejected the surprising elections. Its progressive alliance led by the party holds 156 out of 250 parliamentary seats.

The opponents of Mr. Vocic and his allies are accused of relations with organized crime, corruption, violence against competitors and the freedoms of the media, which they deny.

He maintained close relations with Russia, and Serbia – the candidate for the European Union’s membership – did not join the Western sanctions system imposed on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

The protests by students, opposition, teachers, workers and farmers began last December after the death of 16 people on November 1 in Novi Sad Railway Station. The demonstrators blame corruption for the disaster.

The accident is already The former Prime Minister was forced to resign.

With the end of a protest on Saturday, the organizers played a statement of the crowd, and called on the Serbs to “take freedom in your hands” and give them “green light”.

The organizers said in a statement on Instagram after the assembly: “The authorities had all the mechanisms and time to meet the demands and prevent escalation.”

“Instead, they chose violence and repression against people. Any extremism in the situation is their responsibility.”