site.btaProtesters Smash Windows of Ruling Serbian Party's Office in Belgrade

Protesters in Belgrade on Monday smashed the windows of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party office, located in the center of the Serbian capital Belgrade.

Gendarmerie with armored cars dispersed the demonstrators, and 15 minutes after the incident, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic appeared at the scene and said that what had happened clearly showed that the protesters had no ideas or program and were struggling to come to power through violence by carrying out a color revolution supported by external factors.

"They are trying to destroy the fundamental values we are accustomed to. We will resist them and fight, we will restore what they have taken from us," Vucic said in front of the broken window of the party headquarters.

On Monday evening, anti-government protests broke out once again in several Serbian cities. These protests have been gaining momentum since early August, after clashes between citizens and supporters of the ruling party in two cities located in the autonomous province of Vojvodina.

Anti-government protests have been taking place in Serbia for more than nine months since the collapse of a canopy of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad on November 1 last year, which caused the deaths of 16 people.

The tragedy sparked blockades at more than 60 faculties across the country, with students leading the protests, accusing the government and the President of corruption and nepotism.

During the mass protest on Vidovdan, June 28, in Belgrade - a significant date laden with historical symbolism for Serbs - students called for early parliamentary elections and asked citizens to support them by participating in various forms of civil disobedience.