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Serbia PM Vucic survives reported 'assassination attempt' at Srebrenica ceremonies


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Serbia PM Vucic survives reported 'assassination attempt' at Srebrenica ceremonies

 

Published July 11, 2015

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JULY 11: Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's prime minister, center left under umbrella, is seen during a scuffle at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica. (AP)

A crowd gathered Saturday to commemorate the Srebrenica slaughter 20 years ago pelted the Serbian prime minister in an attack the Serbian interior minister called an “assassination attempt,” Reuters reported.

The Associated Press said anger boiled over at the event as people threw water bottles and other objects at Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

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Vucic's associate, Suzana Vasiljevic, told AP that he was hit in the face with a stone and his glasses were broken. Vasiljevic said she was behind Vucic when "masses broke the fences and turned against us."

Tens of thousands came to mark the 20th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since the Holocaust -- the slaughter of 8,000 Muslims from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica -- with foreign dignitaries urging the international community not to allow such atrocities to happen again and to call the crime "genocide."

Vucic, once an ultra-nationalist, came to represent his country at the commemoration in an apparent gesture of reconciliation.

As Vucic entered the cemetery to lay flowers, thousands booed and whistled. Someone threw a shoe at him, others threw water bottles and other objects.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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