Vucic: Gathering outside Presidency building shows political nature of protests

BELGRADE - In a public address from the Presidency of Serbia, President Aleksandar Vucic said some 600 people were making noise outside the building, showing that he had been right in saying that ongoing protests in the country were exclusively political in nature.

"And I thought those people were apolitical - at least that is what they kept telling me, and said that they did not engage in politics and were only interested in justice," Vucic said.

"But then you realise this is, in fact, not about blocking university faculties, but about politics," Vucic said, noting that he had succeeded in getting the leaders of opposition parties, "as well as those serving them in various movements and NGOs," to show their true faces.

He said all people arrested during protests in the wake of a deadly overhang collapse at the Novi Sad railway station last month had been...