Yahoo – AFP,
13 Sep 2014
Belgrade (AFP) - A German man who participated at a conference on LGBT rights was in intensive care Saturday after he was severely beaten by unknown attackers in Belgrade, a doctor said.
Participants
of Belgrade Gay Pride parade wave flags on October 10, 2010
(AFP Photo/Andrej
Isakovic)
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Belgrade (AFP) - A German man who participated at a conference on LGBT rights was in intensive care Saturday after he was severely beaten by unknown attackers in Belgrade, a doctor said.
Dusan
Jovanovic from Belgrade's Emergency centre said the man, identified only by the
initials D.H. by police, was admitted with "life-threatening"
injuries.
"He
was received with severe head injuries and bleeding, so he has undergone
surgery and put in intensive care as his condition is very serious,"
Jovanovic told AFP.
The
26-year-old woke up later Saturday and communicated, but his condition
"remains critical for next 24 hours," Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar
told reporters after visiting the man.
Police said
they had arrested all three perpetrators of the attack, which happened in
downtown Belgrade, but gave no further details.
Earlier,
Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said he had ordered an urgent
probe into the incident and vowed to find those responsible.
"We
will not allow this kind of thing to remain unpunished... and we will arrest
the German citizen's attackers," Stefanovic said in a statement.
The NGO
Labris, which organised the conference on LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transsexual) rights, held a protest march along central Belgrade streets.
The
incident occurred two weeks ahead of a scheduled gay pride parade, the first
since more than 150 people were wounded in clashes between security forces and
ultra-nationalists in 2010.
Authorities
in deeply patriarchal Serbia have banned gay pride marches ever since, citing
security reasons.
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