Belgrade Public Prosecutor’s Office orders to determine what exactly happened during the 15 minutes of silence at the protest

The First basic public prosecutor’s office in Belgrade in Belgrade announced that after a loud and unusual sound during a student protest organised on 15. On 15 March, during a 15-minute silence that caused panic, running, pushing and falling of the gathered citizens on Kralja Milana Street, the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia opened proceedings and ordered the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia to establish what exactly happened during the critical event, i.e. whether pyrotechnics, weapons or other generally dangerous means were used that could endanger the lives and bodies of the gathered citizens.

It was also ordered, it was reported, to establish whether any of the assembled citizens had been injured and, if so, to obtain medical documentation on the nature and severity of the injuries.

“After a complete and precise establishment of the factual situation, the prosecutor’s office will decide whether the actions of the as yet unidentified persons constitute the elements of the offence of causing general danger under Article 278 of the Criminal Code or any other offence for which prosecution is carried out ex officio,” the prosecutor’s office said. By the same request, the police are ordered to establish whether the information that certain persons contacted the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights Citizens’ Association with complaints after the event is accurate and, if so, to establish the number of such persons and to obtain their information, as well as the information of other persons with knowledge of possible injuries to persons present at the protest,” they concluded./N1/