Speaker: Protest in Novi Sad Violence Committed by Same People

Ana Brnabic (BETAPHOTO/Serbian Parliament /Pedja Vuckovic)

Serbian parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic on Dec. 4 called a protest in Novi Sad held at the time of a session of the city assembly brutal violence by several hundred people and said these were always the same people going "from town to town" to demonstrate.

Brnabic told Pink TV that this was not even violence by a minority, but a mere several hundred people. She said that no more than 550 people were present at the protest in front of the Novi Sad city assembly on Dec. 3, while a session was taking place about a motion to dismiss Mayor Milan Djuric, and that half of them left when violence and scuffles with the police broke out.

"These are always the same people. Take [Bravo movement councilor) Milan Pogacar. He's at protests when it's the freelancers, at the farmers' protests, against lithium, "Serbia Against Violence"... It has nothing to do with this tragedy that happened in Novi Sad on Nov. 1. It's just a cover for new attempts to destabilize Serbia, attempts at color revolutions -- everything we've seen in other places," Brnabic said.

"We have a textbook example of a color revolution. When you don't have a large crowd of people, then you send 20 to multiple locations," Brnabic said further, adding that the crisis was manufactured.