Line Minister: Police Stopped Organized Groups Plotting Incidents on Election Day

Aleksandar Vulin( BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV/MO)

Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin on April 5 said that the police “had stopped” several organized groups which, according to him, had been planning to provoke incidents on Election Day, April 3.

Vulin also said that ahead of the vote, the police “had asked” some people not to enter Serbia’s territory. “The police stopped several persons organized in groups, who were in possession of torches and other tools which they could have used to provoke unrest. Protests are one thing, but groups carrying such tools are something completely different,” Vulin told TV Pink.

Vulin further said that the police had responded to every report of alleged irregularities at the polls. “We responded to every single report even to those which we knew had been made deliberately,” the police minister said, adding that “not a single serious objection was made” to the election process.

Vulin, who is also the leader of the Movement of Socialists, a coalition partner of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, said that Aleksandar Vucic, who was reelected Serbian president on April 3, “was not campaigning,” but “was exclusively dealing with state matters.”