Law enforcement officials in Serbia are being deployed to all 1,800 colleges within the nation as pupils return to common courses after final week's mass capturing.
Greater than 2,000 officers are being assigned to patrol in and round college buildings.
President Aleksandar Vučić has additionally demanded a 90 % discount of firearms in circulation:
“The measures are such that tomorrow we are going to start to confiscate unlawful firearms," he stated on Monday. "Folks have one month to ship arms and ammunition with out penalties. Nobody will ask how you bought these weapons. Simply hand them over. That's all."
A 13-year-old boy took his father's weapons and opened hearth on the college he attended within the coronary heart of Belgrade, capturing at his friends and killing seven women, one boy and a faculty guard.
A day later, a 20-year-old used an computerized weapon in a capturing rampage in two villages in central Serbia, randomly killing eight folks and wounding 14.
Ministers and media blamed
The back-to-back shootings have triggered calls to encourage tolerance and rid society of widespread hate speech and a gun tradition stemming from the Nineteen Nineties wars.
1000's marched in silence on Monday in Serbia's capital, Belgrade, in a significant outpouring of grief and anger in opposition to the federal government's response to the shootings.
The protests had been referred to as by opposition events, who demanded the resignations of presidency ministers and the withdrawal of licenses of the state-controlled mainstream media that promote violence and sometimes host convicted struggle criminals and crime figures on their applications.
"There's a must rebuild the system from scratch, together with the schooling system," one protester who gave her identify as Marina stated. "I'm a mom of two college students and I need them to reside in a greater time than I did, within the Nineteen Nineties, 2000s and right this moment.”
There have been no official estimates of the crowds that streamed into the capital on Monday night, however observers described the gathering as the most important in years in opposition to Vučić and his authorities.
One of many largest anti-government protests in recent times in Serbia additionally mirrored how rattled the nation has been by the shootings.
Within the aftermath, the ruling populists have reacted with fury by accusing the opposition of utilizing the tragedy for political goals.
Serbia has the best stage of gun possession in Europe, with roughly 39 out of 100 folks proudly owning firearms.