Serbian authorities search for two snipers in Belgrade, says president

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that authorities have been searching for two snipers believed to have entered Belgrade, adding that the source of their funding has already been identified.

“Right now in Belgrade we are chasing two snipers we know are in the city. We haven’t been able to find them for three days now. I hope we will succeed — who they are and who their targets are, we will see. We know they have arrived, and we know where the money came from. I believe the competent services will sort it out. This is their only method,” Vucic said, N1 reports.

The president suggested that the situation is linked to growing unrest among protesters, referring to them as “blockaders” — a term used by ruling party figures and pro-government media to describe student demonstrators. “The blockaders are getting desperate, rattled after the fiasco in Novi Sad on November 1,” he said.

Vucic added that Serbia’s security and intelligence services have recently received a series of “serious” reports but chose not to disclose them earlier. “Over the past days and weeks we have had a series of serious security and intelligence reports that are not trivial. We didn’t go public with them. We didn’t want to say anything because they would claim the regime is just scaring people, especially right before November 1,” he explained.

The president reaffirmed his refusal to yield to pressure, either domestic or foreign. “There’s only one way this ends: I will never bow to force, to violence, to foreign pressure to hand over power. It’s not even an option. There’s only one way. Nothing else. They can’t shake my resolve. They can’t defeat me in elections. And they know that well, whenever those elections happen,” Vucic emphasized.

By Vafa Guliyeva