Serbian authorities on Sunday displayed many of the roughly 13,500 weapons they say people have handed over since this month’s mass shootings in the country, including hand grenades, automatic weapons and anti-tank rocket launchers.
The authorities have declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to hand over unregistered weapons or face prison sentences as part of a crackdown on guns following the two mass shootings that left 17 people dead, many of them children.
President Aleksandar Vucic accompanied top police officials on Sunday for the weapons’ display near the city of Smederevo, some 50 kilometres south of the capital, Belgrade.
Vucic said about half of the weapons
