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Satisfactory level of security in Serbia
Belgrade,
18 March 2004
Acting Chief of the Public Security Sector of the Serbian Ministry of Interior Colonel Miroslav Milosevic said today that the level of security in Serbia is satisfactory and that the police are taking all necessary measures to maintain such a state of affairs.
Milosevic told a press conference today that the police headquarters in Kursumlija, which coordinates police activities in southern Serbia, is taking special security measures given the small distance from the administrative border with Kosovo-Metohija, and he added that units of the Serbian Gendarmerie, Serbia-Montenegrin Army, and Serbian Security and Intelligence Agency (BIA) are closely cooperating in the area.
According to Milosevic, the Ministry of Interior stepped up the control of the Serbian borders, important buildings, highways, airports, railway stations, ports, bus stations, and embassies in the country in the wake of the March 11 terrorist attack in Madrid, Spain.
Milosevic added that as a result of yesterday's attacks on Serb enclaves in Kosovo-Metohija by ethnic-Albanian extremists, citizens of Serbia spontaneously took to the streets of Belgrade, Krusevac, Nis, Paracin, Novi Sad, Pirot, Leskovac, Jagodina, Vranje, and Cacak. He also called on citizens not to attack police officers during peaceful protests.
General Milan Obradovic, the chief of Belgrade's police, said 75 people were detained in the capital last night, including those who took part in setting fire to a mosque on Gospodar Jevremova Street.
Obradovic also said 24 policemen, five journalists, and 15 citizens were injured in the demonstrations and added that apart from setting fire to the mosque, the demonstrators also broke windows on a McDonald's restaurant, set to two UNHCR jeeps and two stores owned by ethnic-Albanians on fire, and demolished eight police vehicles.
According to Milosevic, the Ministry of Interior stepped up the control of the Serbian borders, important buildings, highways, airports, railway stations, ports, bus stations, and embassies in the country in the wake of the March 11 terrorist attack in Madrid, Spain.
Milosevic added that as a result of yesterday's attacks on Serb enclaves in Kosovo-Metohija by ethnic-Albanian extremists, citizens of Serbia spontaneously took to the streets of Belgrade, Krusevac, Nis, Paracin, Novi Sad, Pirot, Leskovac, Jagodina, Vranje, and Cacak. He also called on citizens not to attack police officers during peaceful protests.
General Milan Obradovic, the chief of Belgrade's police, said 75 people were detained in the capital last night, including those who took part in setting fire to a mosque on Gospodar Jevremova Street.
Obradovic also said 24 policemen, five journalists, and 15 citizens were injured in the demonstrations and added that apart from setting fire to the mosque, the demonstrators also broke windows on a McDonald's restaurant, set to two UNHCR jeeps and two stores owned by ethnic-Albanians on fire, and demolished eight police vehicles.
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