It 'more than one hundred arrests of a dozen injured stock of violent clashes with police erupted in late last night in Belgrade at the end of the demonstration in support of Ratko Mladic organized by thousands of ultra-nationalists and extremists. Police Chief Milorad Veljovic, quoted by Beta, said at least 13 of the wounded were police officers and four of the hooligans who attacked the police with throwing stones and bottles.
This violence has confirmed the intolerance that characterizes the extreme fringes of Serbian nationalism, in collusion with the fans of football responsible for many violent incidents. Like those at the Gay Pride in Belgrade last October and the subsequent riots in Genoa at the Marassi stadium Italy-Serbia, qualifying match at the European Cup in 2012.
Watched over by massive cordons of riot control agents, demonstrators - including national flags with patriotic music and the effigy of the 'master - chanted slogans praising long for Mladic and against President Boris Tadic, called a "dirty traitor to the interests of Serbia, though supporting the capture of the 'hero' and its delivery to the Hague Tribunal.
"Serbia has dignity and honor, and we have come here to wash away the shame that has spilled Boris Tadic," said the demonstrators Dragan Todorovic, vice president of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS ultranationalist), organizer of the rally. Party leader Vojislav Seselj is currently on trial at the ICC in The Hague on charges of war crimes. 
This violence has confirmed the intolerance that characterizes the extreme fringes of Serbian nationalism, in collusion with the fans of football responsible for many violent incidents. Like those at the Gay Pride in Belgrade last October and the subsequent riots in Genoa at the Marassi stadium Italy-Serbia, qualifying match at the European Cup in 2012.
Watched over by massive cordons of riot control agents, demonstrators - including national flags with patriotic music and the effigy of the 'master - chanted slogans praising long for Mladic and against President Boris Tadic, called a "dirty traitor to the interests of Serbia, though supporting the capture of the 'hero' and its delivery to the Hague Tribunal.
"Serbia has dignity and honor, and we have come here to wash away the shame that has spilled Boris Tadic," said the demonstrators Dragan Todorovic, vice president of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS ultranationalist), organizer of the rally. Party leader Vojislav Seselj is currently on trial at the ICC in The Hague on charges of war crimes.
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