"Tear gas filled the air and stun grenades echoed around the campus as the University of Novi Sad in northern Serbia descended into chaos on Friday night after police charged at citizens who had been peacefully protesting in front of the Faculty of Philosophy. "First, a unit of riot police burst out of the park, from the dark, rushed into the crowd and started hitting people with batons," Norbert Sinkovic, a teaching assistant at the faculty, told DW."
"Demonstrators were chased through the streets, many seeking refuge in the University Rectorate. Police, with the support of the gendarmerie, stormed the building, keeping a group that was mostly made up of students and professors locked inside an amphitheater for several hours and searching them repeatedly. "The whole operation was carried out as if we were terrorists," student named Iva Galicki told DW. "They yelled at us, asking 'Where are your headquarters? Where do you forge your plans?'""
Tear gas and stun grenades filled the campus as riot police charged peaceful protesters in front of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Novi Sad. Videos show police charging and beating students, first-aid volunteers, women and an elderly man with a cane. Armored vehicles patrolled and drove toward citizen groups to disperse them as police pushed people back and cleared main boulevards. Stun grenades and tear gas made breathing difficult and irritated eyes and skin. Demonstrators were chased into the University Rectorate, which police and the gendarmerie stormed, locking students and professors inside an amphitheater for hours and repeatedly searching them.
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