The European Green Party has denounced threats from Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who said he would prosecute two senior party officials who took part in an anti-government demonstration on Friday night.

Serbian police forcefully dispersed thousands of protestors from the grounds of the university in Novi Sad, with Serbian media reporting the use of tear gas, batons, and stun grenades.

Rasmus Nordqvist, a Danish Green MEP, and Vula Tsetsi, the co-chair of the umbrella organisation of European Green parties, had joined the protests after appearing alongside leaders of the Serbian Green-Left Front at the national parliament.

In a televised late-night address after the police operation, Vučić lashed out at Nordqvist and Tsetsi, calling them “scum from the European Green Party ... tha

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