28-year-old Toulouse football supporter Brice Taton died this morning in a Belgrade hospital. Brice was critically injured on 17 September while sitting with other Toulouse fans in a cafe in central Belgrade when a group of some 30 hooligans/cowards attacked them unprovoked. This incident, along with a series of other attacks on foreigners over the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘protest’
Anti-Fascist Rally Without Incident
The anti-fascist rally outside the Philosophy Faculty in Belgrade passed peacefully this afternoon in central Belgrade. Several hundred anti-fascist demonstrators began their protest at around 4pm. Originally, the protest was planned to be a counter-protest to the announced neo-Nazi demonstration scheduled to be held at the same time. However, the neo-Nazi protest was banned by [...]
When Did Belgrade Get A Metro?
Do you notice anything wrong with the video below? It was available on the CNN website a few days ago and shows footage from the riots that took place on July 29 in Belgrade during the Serbian Radical Party meeting in support of Radovan Karadzic.
If you have ever visited Belgrade, you should be able to [...]
Pro-Karadzic Meeting Violence
As everyone guessed, violent conflicts between Serbian police and football hooligans, thugs and children with nothing better to do have taken place during the pro Radaovan Karadzic rally in the centre of Belgrade. I’ve just watched a section of those present at the meeting in Republic Square (Trg republike) broke off and began throwing rocks, [...]
Riots in Belgrade Over Kosovo
Yesterday, a largely peaceful protest was held outside the Parliament building in central Belgrade. 250,000 people gathered, of all political persuasions, to show their opposition to the independence of Kosovo and listen to speeches from political leaders and celebrities. Boris Tadic, the recently re-elected pro-European president of Serbia, was in Romania and didn’t appear at [...]
