Skirmishes broke out Tuesday afternoon between the police and protesters against the arrest of the former Bosnia Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the capital Belgrade.
Protesters who gathered in downtown Belgrade chanted Karadzic's name and threw firecrackers and chairs at the police and started smashing nearby cafes, local media reported
The police intervened and cordoned them off. There was no injury in the skirmishes.
The crowd dispersed after Secretary General of the ultra-nationalist Serbian Radical Party Aleksandar Vucic called on them to take part in a mass protest rally later this week. Karadzic's brother Luka Karadzic was also seen at the protest rally.
Overnight Monday, the police broke up a dozen of young men who protested against Karadzic's arrest outside the Special Court where Karadzic was interrogated.
The security situation in Belgrade is under control, while the security level was raised to a higher level after the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the official Tanjug news agency learned from the Interior Ministry of Serbia.
Riot police have been deployed before the Special Court, along the main avenues and at the city center since Monday evening when the top war crimes suspect was arrested.
Karadzic has been on the run since July 1995 when he was indicted, together with his military commander Ratko Mladic, by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.
Source:Xinhua
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