Councilors who came to the new sessions of the city assemblies Kraljeva and Čačak were met on October 1 by reinforced police forces.
Apart from the police, private security workers are also present in Kraljevo, according to the opposition councilors.
The session of the Assembly of Kings began without the presence of the opposition, because they were not allowed to freely enter the building, so there was a scuffle.
As he tells "Vreme" Predrag Voštinić from the Local Front in Kraljevac, the police searched and let the opposition councilors in one by one.
"We go in one by one to be searched, and they let all the others in without a search before the session," Voštinić told "Vreme".
The session, he says, has started, and the opposition councilors are registered as absent.
New metal detector
This morning, a metal detector was installed at the entrance to the building, and private security requested that each of the opposition councilors be inspected in detail.
However, the opposition councilors refused, after which a police platoon from Kraljevo arrived and was stationed at the entrance to the building in front of the opposition councilors and prevented them from entering.
In addition to the police, private security workers are also present.
Opposition councilors are asking to be searched by the police, not private security.
"We don't know, first of all, if anyone has a license to search me inside, without any public procurement they put some kind of detectors. This is literally a farce, it will last for another day, a week, but imagine that this is how the state works. Here you go, you search me, whatever you want, let's see who will search you inside," Predrag Voštinić told the police officers, reports N1.
Reinforced police forces also met councilors in Čačak this morning.
Earlier cases
A close encounter between representatives of the opposition and private security workers happened earlier in Kraljevo, when representatives of the Local Front were thrown out of the building.
Recently, there were clashes in several sessions of the assembly in Zaječar, as well as in Kosjerić.
Earlier this year, members of private security beat activists in front of the Belgrade City Assembly.
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