Police in Kula arrest man suspected of axe attack on SNS election stand

Police in Kula, Vojvodina, arrested today a man with the initials Z. S., who is suspected of smashing the Serbian Progressive Party’s (SNS) election stand with an axe this morning and striking an activist of the party with the axe handle, Serbia’s Interior Ministry (MUP) announced.

The suspect is charged with violent behavior, endangering safety, light bodily injury and destruction of or damage to another’s property.

According to the MUP, he is also suspected of writing insulting graffiti on the official vehicles of the Kula Municipal Assembly and leaving a threatening message at the home of the president of the SNS Municipal Board in Kula.

The suspect has been ordered detained for up to 48 hours and will be brought before the prosecutor, the MUP announced.