A man was seriously injured on Wednesday when shots were fired outside the parliament building in Belgrade near a tent erected by supporters of Serbian President Aleksander Vucic.
One person was detained and police secured the scene, officials and local media reported. Vucic told a government event he was addressing he had to leave early due to “a terrorist act that has just happened in front of the Serbian assembly building.”
Huge street protests have been going on for a year against Vucic, triggered by the collapse of a train station awning in the city of Novi Sad last November that killed 16 people and that many blame on government neglect and corruption.
The shooting took…
