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BELGRADE, Serbia — Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation. Vucic said that approximately half of the arms collected since last week had been held illegally, while the other half …
BELGRADE, Serbia — The first shooting left Serbia weeping. “We walked around like zombies for 24 hours, not believing what has happened and looking for reasons,” President Aleksandar Vucic, a populist authoritarian who began his political career as a far-right Serbian nationalist during the Yugoslav civil wars, said Friday in a nationwide TV address. In Thursday’s attack, a 20-year-old gunman …
Police officers stand outside a schoolyard Friday in the village of Dubona, Serbia, one of two villages where a gunman fatally shot eight people and wounded 14 the day before. “We walked around like zombies for 24 hours, not believing what has happened and looking for reasons,” President Aleksandar Vucic, a populist authoritarian who began his political career as a …