BELGRADE, December 24. /TASS/. Belgrade police used tear gas in response to a new effort by demonstrators to access the city administration building, TASS correspondent reported from the scene.
Opposition supporters continue to smash window panes with sticks and throw stones and beer cans at police officers who are using shields to block the doorway.
Earlier on Sunday, supporters of the opposition coalition "Serbia against Violence", who started a series of rallies near the Republican Election Commission building in the center of Belgrade on the evening of December 18, tried to storm the city administration building.
Protesters earlier gathered for another protest rally near the Election Commission building. The demonstrators blocked Kralja Milana Street. A stage with music was set up between the Election Commission building and the residence of the Serbian president, carrying Serbian and EU flags, shouted anti-government slogans and used loudspeakers, whistles and pipes.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said in his televised address to the nation that the attempted takeover of the Belgrade municipal government building is not a revolution - Serbian law enforcement authorities are in complete control of the situation and that foreign intelligence services warned Serbian security forces ahead of time about the impending unrest and intentions by opposition sympathizers to capture the Belgrade city government building.