BELGRADE POLICE SUPERINTENDENTS DISMISSED BELGRADE, March 22 (Hina) - The head of the Belgrade department of the Interior Ministry, Major General Milan Obradovic and the commander of the Stari Grad (Old Town) police station in
Belgrade, Lieutenant Vladan Lukovic, were dismissed on Monday as they were held responsible for the confusion in the police following the arson attack on the Belgrade mosque.
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BELGRADE, March 22 (Hina) - The head of the Belgrade department of the
Interior Ministry, Major General Milan Obradovic and the commander of
the Stari Grad (Old Town) police station in Belgrade, Lieutenant
Vladan Lukovic, were dismissed on Monday as they were held responsible
for the confusion in the police following the arson attack on the
Belgrade mosque.#L#
There was a clear and unequivocal instruction to protect, in the night
between 17 and 18 March, all religious objects in Serbia, to step up
security measures after the mosque in Nis was burnt as well as to
deploy stronger forces and use all available means, except fire-arms,
to protect the mosque in Belgrade, said Assistant Interior Minister
Miroslav Milosevic at a news conference on Monday.
He said that confusion and wrong assessments were noticed in the
Belgrade police leadership after the incidents and therefore Obradovic
and Lukovic were dismissed.
Milosevic went on to say that during the last week's riots in Serbia,
a total of 178 persons were arrested, and 45 of them were detained in
custody. Ten charges were pressed for the criminal act of arson
attacks on the mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
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