President Vucic said that clashes with police and attempts to seize the parliament building were staged by radical nationalists on Tuesday.

The reason was Vucic’s statement that it was necessary to reintroduce curfews in the capital due to the increasing number of COVID-19 infections.

However, the protesters also shouted political slogans unrelated to the pandemic, such as the one about Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo.

“These people did not talk about the Coronavirus: they talked about some kind of betrayal, about immigrants, about the 5G network … And it was not the first time these people were there, just this time they were more aggressive,” the Balkan Insight quotes Vucic as saying.

“The rally was well organized, and it was a failure of some of our security services: they noticed the influence of foreign intelligence agencies on the organization of the protest too late,” said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday.

According to the latest data, 16,719 cases have been confirmed in Serbia, while as of Tuesday, 299 cases have been detected per day.

Serbian doctors have already reported that the second wave of the pandemic was heavier, with more infections among young people.

On 21 June, Serbian parliamentary elections were held, which were won by the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, with 60.65 per cent of voters.

As a result, the protests were also political in nature, with some demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Aleksandar Vucic.

According to the latest data, the situation in the Serbian capital has been taken under control.

Source: BBC