“They will be well armed, equipped and ready to use force,” TASS quoted Vučić as referring to Serbian television.
Earlier, he said that the republic’s Ministry of the Interior will recruit an additional 1.2 thousand police officers, of whom a thousand will work in schools.
Also, according to the head of state, such a step should have a positive impact on the level of security, avoiding fights between schoolchildren.
In Belgrade, on May 3, a seventh grader opened fire with two pistols in a school, killing nine and wounding seven others. The attacker was arrested, now his fate is decided: he can be admitted to a special psychiatric institution, since at the time of the crime the student was under 14 years old and cannot assume criminal responsibility.
Because of the tragedy in Serbia, a three-day mourning was declared, but on Friday night the country was again shocked by a monstrous incident: not far from the city of Mladenovac, a 21-year-old man shot residents locals because of a small insult. Eight people died and 13 were injured. Vucic called the incident a terrorist attack and an attack against the entire country.
