Three weeks after UB killed eight people and wounded 14 with automatic weapons in the villages of Dubona and Malo Orašje near Mladenovac, pDeputy President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić visited the families of those killed.
In Dubona, he visited the Panić and Todorović families, and in Orašje he spoke with the Stevanović, Milić, Milovanović and Mitrović families.
The Panić family was left without two children, a son, who was an off-duty policeman at the time of the attack, and a daughter.
The youngest victim of this mass murder was 15 years old, and the oldest was 25 years old.
Vučić expressed his condolences and said that he believes that the judicial system and institutions of Serbia will have the strength to adequately punish the murderer and his helpers and that the only true punishment is the most severe one.
The President of Serbia added that he will do his best to return the institution of the death penalty to the legal order of Serbia.
Let us remind you that the mass murder in Mladenovac and Smederevo took place on May 4, just a day after a thirteen-year-old boy killed ten and injured six people at the "Vladislav Ribnikar" elementary school.
A candle in the church for the victims of the "Vladislav Ribnikar" elementary school
After the tragedy in "Ribnikar", there was speculation for days about the reasons why Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Belgrade Mayor Alekandar Šapić did not come to the school to light a candle for the injured students and the guardian of this school.
Brnabić explained that she wanted to avoid it politicization of a tragic event, while the President of the Republic stated that he had lit a candle in the church and that he did not think that he should make a show out of it. After the tragedies in the center of Belgrade and near Mladenovac, Vučić addressed the nation seven times.
Disarmament of Serbia and police in schools
After the tragedies, in one of the aforementioned addresses, Vučić announced that measures will be taken under an urgent procedure to strengthen security in Serbia, and one of them is the tightening of the conditions for possessing weapons. He also stated that he will completely disarm Serbia.
On May 5, the Government of Serbia adopted measures that require the Ministry of Internal Affairs to urgently prepare amendments to the Law on Arms and Ammunition, which would tighten the conditions for keeping and carrying short firearms, and for those who do not meet the stricter conditions, mandatory redemption will be provided weapons.
Amendments to the Law will also provide for mandatory checks of persons who are allowed to possess weapons (including hunting weapons), which would include medical, psychiatric and psychological examinations, as well as a mandatory test for psychoactive substances.
These checks will be carried out every six months and every year.
After the MUP's public call for all citizens who illegally possess weapons and explosive devices to surrender their weapons without consequences within a month, more than 33 thousand pieces of weapons were collected from May XNUMX to today.
In addition to these, it was proposed to reduce the criminal-legal responsibility of the perpetrator of the crime from 14 to 12 years of age, and the employment of 1.200 more police officers, in charge of providing security in all schools in Serbia, was also ordered.
The Working Group of the Government of Serbia for supporting the mental health and safety of young people, as well as the Council for the fight against peer violence, as well as the working group for the safety of children on the Internet, were formed and began their work.
The President of Serbia went to Mladenovac after three mass protests in Belgrade under the slogan "Serbia against violence", numerous criticisms that neither he nor other representatives of his government showed appropriate sympathy and compassion after the tragic events, as well as the analysis that this is exactly what brought out so many number of people on the streets.
Since Monday, Pink TV has visibly stopped an almost three-week campaign of belittling, mocking and insulting the participants and organizers of the protest, which also only caused a counter-effect.
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