(5 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade - 05 May 2023
1. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian President:
”The perpetrator has been arrested and he will not see her light of day, metaphorically speaking. He will not leave jail.”
3. EU and Serbian flags
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian President:
”We will pretty much disarm Serbia, and for the illegal carrying of the weapons, the fines will be so high, we will almost double them.”
5. Vucic leaving
STORYLINE:

A gunman apparently shooting at random killed eight people and wounded 14 in three Serbian villages, authorities said, shaking a nation still in the throes of grief over a mass shooting a day earlier.

Police arrested a suspect Friday after an all-night manhunt.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called Thursday's shooting an attack on the whole nation — and said the person arrested wore a T-shirt with a pro-Nazi slogan on it.

"The perpetrator has been arrested and he will not see her light of day, metaphorically speaking. He will not leave jail," Vucic said at a news conference.

Vucic referred to the attack as an act of terror and announced a new raft of gun-control measures, including a moratorium on new permits for firearms, as well as an increase in the number of police.

“We will disarm Serbia,” Vucic promised, saying the government would outline the new rules later on Friday.

The shooting came a day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns to kill eight fellow students and a guard at a school in Belgrade, the capital.

The bloodshed sent shockwaves through a Balkan nation scarred by wars, but unused to mass murders.

Though Serbia is awash with weapons left over from the conflicts of the 1990s, Wednesday’s shooting was the first at a school in the country’s modern history.

The last mass shooting before this week was in 2013, when a war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.

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