At the same moment when the silence in Kralj Milan was broken by a terrible roar, a group of young men from the "King's Circle Residences" construction site started throwing firecrackers and cannon shots at the citizens
What interrupted? fifteen minutes of silence on Saturdayon March 15, in Ulica Kralja Milana? "Time" team still reconstructs the event with the help of testimonies of citizens that reach us every day.
As we learn, a moment after he broke through Kralja Milana Street terrible roar, a group of young men threw firecrackers and cannon shots at citizens from the "King's Circle Residences" construction site, located in the stretch between the Yugoslav Drama Theater and Slavija, on the corner of Kralje Milan and Svetozar Marković.
This is what the testimonies we collected from citizens speak about. One of them says that she was standing in Ulica Svetozar Markovića when, exactly at 19.11:19.11 p.m., she heard a loud sound, like a loud firecracker. By the way, at exactly XNUMX:XNUMX, there was an ominous impact that caused mass panic and a stampede, and just then chaos occurred near Pionirski Park, when cannon shots, bottles and raincoats flew from the tent settlement, causing the guards to throw away their vests and run into the crowd.
"Between 18.30:18.45 and XNUMX:XNUMX, a 'too loud firecracker' was also heard in the same place and something was being smoked at the corner of the construction site," she adds.
Another citizen adds that at the same second that the silence was broken, unknown people from the construction site turned on a green laser and aimed at people's heads, as well as that they threw cannon shots into the park and under the building, just a few meters from the crowd.
"Nobody knew what happened and that was the worst. It felt like some trucks were driving towards people and they started shooting at people," says one witness and adds:
"However, then we realized that they were not shooting, but were throwing firecrackers at us from the surrounding buildings. We could clearly see the silhouettes of people stationed in an unfinished building right next to the JDP, in the direction of Slavia, who were throwing firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices at us from the floors of that building."
And other testimonies say the same. Someone climbed up to the higher floors of the construction site - eyewitnesses mostly talk about the fourth and fifth floors - and started pouring firecrackers and cannon shots on the dismayed citizens from above.
Videos of people in black filming protesters in Kralja Milana Street from that construction site are also circulating on the Internet.
Last night, at the construction site across from the Hilton Hotel, many people were seen filming and observing the people in Kralja Milan. Immediately after the release of the cannon and the stormy reaction of the people, the same characters began to throw firecrackers, further inciting unrest. pic.twitter.com/hQa4Q6HtQb
— JoJoJoDzo (@JoJoJoDzo) March 16, 2025
Some citizens saw people of a similar description in the entire gungula and in front of the construction site itself.
"Something I didn't see mentioned is that at the same moment (the moment when the stampede was caused, ed. nov.), characters with masks ran through the crowd, at least where we were standing, at the intersection of Kralj Milan and Svetozar Marković," writes one user on the X social network.
Something I didn't see mentioned was that at the same moment masked figures ran through the crowd, at least where we were standing, at the intersection of Kralja Milan and Svetozar Marković
— Maybe Crazy (@true_misfit_) March 16, 2025
And one of the citizens who was in Cvetni trg at that moment saw a group of young men going from that direction in the direction of Andrić's wreath, pulling masks on their faces.
Dejan Stanković is from 15.3. the opponent of the Republic of Serbia and the greatest enemy of the state pic.twitter.com/dHDaEbFKl5
— filliposrb (@filliposrb) March 19, 2025
Who entered the construction site without authorization?
The construction site from which the pyrotechnics were thrown is actually the unfinished "King's Circle Residences" complex, whose investor is a company majority-owned by former football player Dejan Stanković. "Maison Royal", while the contractor is the company "Teka gradnja".
The entire complex is completely surrounded by panels at least two meters high. It is easy to enter the construction site only from Svetozara Markovića Street, where surveillance cameras are also installed.
Who are the people who entered the construction site on March 15, climbed to the upper floors of the unfinished building, and from there threw pyrotechnic devices at the citizens? "Vreme" tried to get this information from the contractor.
We did not receive an answer, although the friendly employees who answered wrote down our contact and promised that the director would call us. It sounded like they already knew this information, because the woman who answered told the other that the journalists were calling "because of those who climbed the building."
The director hasn't called yet.
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