Incidents in Parliament, MPs Injured

Incidents in Parliament, March 4 2025 (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Serbian parliament’s spring session was interrupted twice after opposition MPs used pyrotechnics. Several MPs were injured in the incident.

Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic said that MP Jasmina Obradovic suffered a concussion after the incident, while two other female MPs sought medical assistance.

The incident occurred after the agenda was adopted and ministers started entering the room. Opposition MPs proceeded to get up from their seats and set off red and black smoke grenades and raised a banner reading “Serbia is rising up for the regime to fall.”

Before that the majority rejected an opposition proposal to take all items other than amendments and supplements to the law on higher education and a conclusion that the cabinet had resigned off of the agenda.

Opposition MPs whistled, blew vuvuzelas and made noise while several of them threw eggs and bottles and activated a fire extinguisher.

Brnabic refused to stop the session or call a break, saying that no one would block parliament.

“We have a job that we have to do and Serbia will never stop… We must adopt bills for the citizens of Serbia and by adopting bills meet the demands of students,” she told parliament, stopping her address several times because of thick smoke from the smoke grenades that were activated.

The agenda consisted of 62 items while Brnabic scheduled the resumption of the debate on March 5.

The First Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade said that it had instructed police to gather the necessary information to establish the identity of the persons who brought in and used pyrotechnics and “the persons who threw different objects and inflicted injuries on MPs.”

During the session students, high school students and citizens gathered in front of parliament, blocking traffic and making noise, while some of them threw eggs at parliament.