Serbian PM Orders News Blackout on Arms Finds

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has ordered members of security and state institutions in charge of his safety from going public with any more information on the weapons caches reportedly found in and around Belgrade, Serbian national broadcaster RTS reported on Wednesday.

According to the same report, Vucic did not show up in his office on Wednesday, for the first time since he took office in 2014. His staff did not give a reason for his absence.

Following Vucic's order, the session of parliament's Board for the Control of Security Services, which was due to discuss the Prime Minister's safety on Thursday, has been cancelled.

The order came after police on Tuesday said they had found a new arms stash in a car in a garage in New Belgrade containing 400 grammes of explosives, a detonator, two mobile phones for remote activation of the explosives, a gun and a submachine gun.

Concerns have been raised that the weapons were intended for use against Vucic or his brother, after Interior Minster Nebojsa Stefanovic on Tuesday said the Prime Minister had voiced concerns about the safety of his brother, Andrej Vucic.

On Sunday, at a press conference, Vucic accused the media of "targeting" his brother, an owner of restaurants and a businessman.

Interior Minister Stefanovic said last Saturday that Prime Minister Vucic had been "moved to safety" after police found a large quantities of weapons hidden close to his family home in Jajinci, near Belgrade.

Stefanovic stated on that occasion that police found several hand grenades, a bazooka and large quantities of ammunition for machine-guns and snipers, hidden in the woods.

Miroslav Hadzic, from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policies, a think tank, stated on Wednesday that...