LimbicNutrition Weblog

Aftermath time here in Belgrade. Serbs are furious with the hooligans who attacked the embassies last night, partly because people generally detest the thug element here and once again they have gifted the media an anti-Serb platform. Instead of reporting that hundreds of thousands of people staged the largest peaceful protest in Serbia’s history, the news today is all about a few hundred football hooligans who torched the US embassy (and in one grisly case, himself).

The UN security council has denounced the attacks. This is the same security council that did not say a word when the Danish embassies in Iran and Pakistan were torched by mobs, but hey, we all know Serbs and that Kosovo are a special case that demands special hypocrisy. That said there are very serious questions about how how and why the embassies came to be unguarded.

There is a near permanent riot police presence. Last Sunday (Feb 17th) there were hundreds of cops guarding the US embassy, which was attacked, but the attack was quickly repulsed (see the YouTube evidence). It looks to me that the police were withdrawn deliberately. They were not driven back by the mob, they were simply not deployed (as they usually are). When they eventually turned up in their Hummers they drove off the rioters with relative ease. They did not even have to dismount from their vehicles.  The Chief of Police will have some explaining to do today. The “reason” given, that the traffic obstructed police, is a sham.

Meanwhile incriminating videos of last nights looting are doing the rounds in Serbia, with two bimbos from the suburb of Batajnica have become unlikely figures of hate and mockery after being filmed looting. You can see their Affirmative Shopping spree on YouTube.

[UPDATE: The looting girls featured in the video above have been arrested and charged. See here ]

BBC NEWS | Europe | Serbia embassy attacks condemned