From today, May 8 and until June 8, all its citizens Serbia they will be able to hand him over to the police armament which they illegally possess without incurring criminal consequences.

The government decision taken after two mass murders that happened last week concerns all types of firearms, but also military equipment, such as grenades, mines, portable rocket launchers, etc., it is stated in the announcement of the Ministry of the Interior.

“I call on citizens who possess illegal weapons to take advantage of the opportunity and surrender them, because once the deadline has passed, the penaltys that will be imposed on the offenders will be very strict“, said the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vucic, in an interview on Serbian public television. He also stated that measures will be taken to control gun license holders, such as conducting, suddenly and at regular intervals, psychological and toxicological tests. In Serbia of 6.8 million inhabitants, 765,000 gun licenses are in force. However, it is estimated that approximately 2.5 million citizens own at least one firearm.

From today in all schools in Serbia security measures have been increasedwith the presence of two fully armed policemen at the entrance while there are also patrols around the school buildings.

Primary school “Vladislav Rybnikar”, where last Wednesday a fourteen-year-old student killed eight of his classmates and the school guard, will start operating in two days. Many parents of children attending this school are asking for the site of the tragedy to be renovated before classes start.