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Mladenovac And Smederevo Shootings
On the evening of 4 May 2023, a shooting spree occurred in the villages of Dubona near Mladenovac, and Malo Orašje near Smederevo, Serbia. Armed with an automatic assault rifle, the shooter opened fire from a car, resulting in the deaths of nine individuals, including an off-duty police officer, and leaving twelve others injured. The suspect, 20-year-old Uroš Blažić, fled the scene but was apprehended the next day near Kragujevac. Following the incident, Blažić's father, uncle, and first cousin were also taken into custody, facing charges related to criminal possession of a weapon. Uncle and first cousin were tried separately from the rest. First cousin was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison, while uncle was acquitted. Blažić was charged with murder, attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon, kidnapping, and carjacking. This incident occurred one day after the Belgrade school shooting. Both shootings caused mass protests in Serbia. Backgro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Massacres In Serbia
, - , Novi Sad raid , January 1942 , Hungarian-occupied Bačka , 3,000–4,000 , Hungarian war crime (see: War Crimes of World War II#Hungarian perpetrated crimes) , - , Communist purges in Serbia in 1944–45 , October 1944 to May 1945. , Serbia , 80,000–100,000+ , Yugoslav Communist war crime (A total of 56,000 Germans, 20,000–40,000 Hungarians and 23,000-24,000 Serbs killed) , - , Paraćin massacre , 3 September 1987 , Paraćin , 5 , spree killing , - , - , Vranje massacre , 3 June 1993 , Vranje , 8 , spree killing , - , Jabukovac killings , 27 July 2007 , Jabukovac , 9 , spree killing , - , Velika Ivanča shooting , 9 April 2013 , Velika Ivanča, Mladenovac , 13 , spree killing , - , Žitište shooting , 2 July 2016 , Žitište , 5 , spree killing See also * List of massacres in Yugoslavia {{DEFAULTSORT:Massacres in Serbia Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fearmongering
Fearmongering, or scaremongering, is a form of manipulation that causes fear by using exaggerated rumors of impending danger. Theory According to evolutionary psychology, humans have a strong impulse to pay attention to danger because awareness of dangers has been important for survival throughout their evolutionary history. The effect is amplified by cultural evolution when the news media cater to people's appetite for news about dangers. The attention of citizens is a fiercely contested resource that news media, political campaigners, social reformers, advertisers, civil society organizations, missionaries, and cultural event makers compete over, according to attention economy. Social agents of all kinds are often using fearmongering as a tactic in the competition for attention, as illustrated by the examples below. Fearmongering can have strong psychological effects, which may be intended or unintended. One hypothesized effect is mean world syndrome in which people perc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žitište Shooting
On 2 July 2016, a Serbian man killed five people and injured twenty-two others after he opened fire with an assault rifle in a café in the village of Žitište, in the Central Banat District of Vojvodina, Serbia. The perpetrator was later identified as Siniša Zlatić ( sr-Cyrl, Синиша Златић). Shooting On the nights of July 1st, 2016 and July 2nd, 2016, Zlatić visited a café during a local festival, where he noticed his estranged wife with a group of friends. He returned home and retrieved an AK-47 assault rifle he illegally owned. He then returned to the café and at about 1:40 a.m. local time started shooting into the air. The attacker then shot his wife and another woman dead before randomly shooting other diners in the café, killing three men and injuring 22 other people. Café diners then grabbed the gun from the attacker as he tried to run away. Police located in the vicinity quickly apprehended the gunman. Aftermath On 1 March 2017, the high court in Zr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velika Ivanča Shooting
A spree shooting occurred in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča in the early hours of 9 April 2013. Fourteen people (including the gunman) were killed and one, the gunman's wife, was injured. Police identified the gunman as 59-year-old Ljubiša Bogdanović ( sr-Cyrl, Љубиша Богдановић), a relative of many of the victims. Bogdanović died of his injuries on 11 April 2013. The massacre was the deadliest in the country since the end of the Yugoslav Wars. Attack At approximately 05:00 Central European Time, CEST (03:00 UTC), Bogdanović shot and killed his 83-year-old mother Dobrila and his 42-year-old son Branko, and wounded his wife Javorka with a shot to the head in their home. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabukovac Killings
The Jabukovac killings occurred July 27, 2007, when Nikola Radosavljević killed 9 people and wounded 5 in the Serbian village of Jabukovac. Shooting On July 27, 2007, Radosavljević had lunch with his wife in Jabukovac. She came from Vienna that day. During lunch at 17:00 they quarreled. Radosavlevich hit his wife, broke her nose and jaw and she fell to the floor at the table. After the attack on his wife, he jumped into a well near his house. A neighbor heard strange noises from the well and pulled him out of the well. He then went to his house and took a shotgun that belonged to his father. He told his neighbor to go home or he would shoot him. The neighbor ran away from him. Radosavlevich left his yard covered in blood and with a gun in his hand. He took a dirt road and took to the streets of the Albanian monument. He stopped at a fence on the border with a neighbor's yard. Through a hole in the fence he shot and killed an old woman, she was in the yard. After the shots, two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Serbian Protests
In May 2023, a series of mass protests began in Belgrade and other locations in Serbia, following Belgrade school shooting, a school shooting in Belgrade and Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings, a spree shooting near Mladenovac and Smederevo. The protests, named Serbia Against Violence ( sr-cyr, Србија против насиља, Srbija protiv nasilja), had been attended by tens of thousands of demonstrators on every protest since 8 May. Despite being organised by the Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party, Do not let Belgrade drown/Green–Left Front, Party of Freedom and Justice, People's Party (Serbia, 2017), People's Party and Together (Serbia), Together opposition parties, no party signs were reported to be seen at the protests. The demonstrators demanded the resignation of Branko Ružić (politician), Branko Ružić, Bratislav Gašić, Aleksandar Vulin, board members of the Regulatory Body for Electronic Media and Radio Television of Serbia, confiscation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
