A driver rammed through a crowd of protesters in the city of Novi Pazar while 3 elderly men hurled abuse at protesters in the Zemun neighborhood of Belgrade on Tuesday. Pročitaj više

In Novi Pazar, a student was injured when a driver rammed through a crowd of protesters. Two student orderlies tried to stop the man from driving through the crowd and one was knocked down by the car, injuring his arm. The student said that he tried to jump back but was hit by a rear view mirror and thrown against a parked car while his fellow student managed to avoid the driver. The driver did not stop.

Local media said that the incident was reported to the police.

In Zemun, a crowd observing the daily 15 Minutes of Silence came under verbal assault by 3 elderly men while police officers stood by.

The protest in silence has been observed since for the 15 people killed at Novi Sad Railway Station when a concrete awning collapsed in front of the station on November 1.

The 3 elderly men started hurling abuse at the crowd standing in silence with two of them leaving quickly but the third continuing to make death threats for a full 10 minutes, invoking the return to power of ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj who was sentenced for inciting war crimes by the Hague Tribunal. The man was asked to stop by one of the orderlies but continued the verbal abuse.

A policewoman was asked to intervene and she called a police patrol that arrived after the man walked away. Eyewitnesses said at least one plain clothes police officer was in the crowd but did nothing even when the man threatened the police.

Later on Tuesday, a crowd of culture institution staff and supporters, including some students, protested in front of the Culture Ministry and then marched to the Belgrade Culture Center in the center of the Serbian capital for what they called the liberation of that city institution of culture.