Al Mabar International Investments

Belgrade police and Mayor Sinisa Mali have denied all knowledge of 30 masked men armed with baseball bats and equipped with diggers who tore down buildings on the city riverbank between Sunday night and Monday and allegedly beat up locals.

After the Serbian government published the contract for the Belgrade Waterfront project on Sunday, the protest group "Let's not Drown Belgrade" said it showed Serbia was giving up its sovereignty because it had committed itself not to pass laws that conflict with the contract.