塞尔维亚贝尔格莱德-塞尔维亚当局周日展示了数千件武器中的枪支和数箱手榴弹，其中包括反坦克火箭发射器，他们说，这些武器是人们在接连发生的大规模枪击事件震惊了这个巴尔干国家后交出的。
政府宣布了一个月的大赦期，允许公民交出未注册的武器，作为打击枪支的一部分，本月两天内发生了两起枪击事件，造成17人死亡，其中许多是儿童。
民粹主义总统亚历山大·武契奇(Aleksandar Vucic)的政府在贝尔格莱德一所学校和两个村庄分别发生枪击事件后面临公众压力，他陪同高级警官查看了在首都以南约50公里(30英里)的斯梅代雷沃镇附近排列的各种武器。
官员们表示，自5月8日大赦开始以来，居民已经交出了大约13500件物品。
现场照片显示，一排排步枪、自动武器和手枪整齐地堆放在一个仓库的地板上，旁边还有装满手榴弹的木箱。
塞尔维亚拥有成千上万件从1990年代巴尔干战争战场上运来的武器。过去举行过类似的武器大赦，但收效甚微。
武契奇说，自上周以来收缴的武器中，大约有一半是非法持有的，而另一半是公民决定放弃的注册武器。总统说，交出的武器将运往塞尔维亚武器和弹药工厂，供该国武装部队使用。
当局表示，一旦大赦期结束，被抓到非法武器的人如果被判有罪，可能面临长达15年的监禁。
“6月8日之后，国家将采取镇压措施，惩罚将非常严厉，”武契奇在谈到大赦后时期时说。“为什么有人需要自动武器?还是所有这些枪?”
据估计，塞尔维亚是欧洲人均注册武器最多的国家之一，非法持有的武器更多。
5月3日，在贝尔格莱德市中心的一所小学，一名13岁的男孩拿起他父亲的枪，向他的同学开枪，此后当局发起了枪支镇压。一天后，一名20岁的男子使用自动武器在贝尔格莱德南部的一个农村地区随意开枪。
武契奇宣布的其他反枪措施包括更严格地控制枪支拥有者和射击场。警方官员说，枪支拥有者必须有一个带密码的保险箱来存放他们注册的武器，任何没有妥善保管的枪支都将被没收。
反犯罪部门官员Bojana Otovic Pjanovic在塞尔维亚国家电视台RTS上说，官员们计划下令检查注册地址，“以检查是否存在安全保管的条件”。“如果没有，枪支将被没收，惩罚将是严厉的。”
警方表示，在过去的一些收缴工作中，人们将武器扔进垃圾箱或无人看管，而不是将其带到警察局。
专家认为，数以万计的非法武器仍然没有许可证，当局无法触及。
警方官员奥托维克·皮亚诺维奇(Otovic Pjanovic)坚持认为，在最近的枪击事件后，“公民们开始意识到在家里持有枪支的风险。”
这两起大规模枪击事件造成17人死亡，21人受伤，震惊了整个国家，并引发了对这个经历了几十年动荡和危机的国家进行变革的呼吁。
枪击事件发生后，数万人在贝尔格莱德举行了两次抗议游行，要求政府部长辞职，并禁止播放暴力内容和主持战犯和犯罪人物的电视台。
武契奇周日拒绝了反对派要求内政部长布拉迪斯拉发·加西奇辞职的呼吁，加西奇也出席了周日的武器展示。但是总统暗示政府可能会辞职，他将宣布提前解散选举他计划于5月26日在贝尔格莱德举行集会。
“我们无意替换(内政部长)加西奇，他工作出色，”武契奇说。“警察做错了什么?”
反对派政治家指责当局煽动针对批评者的暴力和仇恨言论，在主流媒体上传播宣传，并在武契奇领导下的所有机构实行专制统治，他们说这加剧了社会分裂。
周五，贝尔格莱德的抗议者封锁了首都的一座关键桥梁和高速公路，以表达他们的要求。塞尔维亚其他城镇也举行了抗议活动，对枪击事件和民粹主义当局表达了大量的悲伤和愤怒。
武契奇将桥梁封锁描述为骚扰，而他和他控制下的其他官员和媒体试图淡化抗议者的人数。
Serbia: Guns, grenades and rocket launchers among 13,500 weapons surrendered after mass shootings
BELGRADE, Serbia --Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation.
The government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following the two shootings in two days this month that left 17 people dead, many of them children.
Populist President Aleksandar Vucic, whose government has faced public pressure in the wake of the separate shootings at a Belgrade school and in two villages, accompanied top police officials to view the assortment of arms arrayed near the town of Smederevo, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital.
Officials said residents had turned over about 13,500 items since the amnesty opened on May 8.
Photos from the scene showed lines of rifles, automatic weapons and pistols stacked neatly on the floor in a warehouse along with wooden boxes filled with hand grenades.
Serbia has tens of thousands of weapons brought in from the battlefields of the 1990’s wars in the Balkans. Similar weapons amnesties were held in the past with only limited success.
Vucic said that approximately half of the arms collected since last week had been held illegally, while the other half were registered weapons that citizens nonetheless decided to part with. The relinquished weapons will go to Serbian arms and ammunition factories for potential use by the country's armed forces, the president said.
Authorities have said that people caught with illegal weapons once the amnesty period ends could face prison sentences of up to 15 years, if they are convicted.
“After June 8, the state will respond with repressive measures and punishments will be very strict,” Vucic said of the post-amnesty period. “What does anyone need an automatic weapon for? Or all these guns?”
Serbia is estimated to be among the top countries in Europe in registered weapons per capita, and many more are held illegally.
Authorities launched the gun crackdown after a 13-year-old boy on May 3 took his father’s gun and opened fire on his fellow-students in an elementary school in central Belgrade. A day later, a 20-year-old man used an automatic weapon to shoot randomly in a rural area south of Belgrade.
Other anti-gun measures announced by Vucic include stricter control of gun owners and shooting ranges. Police officials said gun owners must have a coded safe in which to store their registered weapons and that any guns not kept properly would be confiscated.
Officials plan to order inspections of registered addresses "to check whether there exist conditions for safekeeping,” anti-crime department officer Bojana Otovic Pjanovic said on Serbian state TV network RTS. “If not, the guns will be taken away and punishment will be rigorous.”
Police said that during some of the past collection efforts, people threw their weapons away in garbage containers or left them unattended instead of bringing them to police stations.
Experts believe tens of thousands of illegal weapons have remained unlicensed and out of reach of authorities.
Police official Otovic Pjanovic insisted that after recent shootings “citizens became aware of the risks of keeping guns at home.”
The two mass shooting left 17 people dead and 21 wounded, stunning the nation and triggering calls for changes in the country that has been through decades of turmoil and crises.
Tens of thousands of people have rallied in two protest marches in Belgrade since the shootings, demanding resignations of government ministers and a ban on television stations that promote violent content and host war criminals and crime figures.
Vucic on Sunday rejected opposition calls for the resignation of Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic, who was also present at Sunday's weapons display. But the president suggested that the government might resign and that he will announce an earlyelectionat a rally he has planned for May 26 in Belgrade.
“We have no intention of replacing (interior minister) Gasic, who is doing a great job," said Vucic. “What have police done wrong?”
Opposition politicians have accused authorities of fueling violence and hate speech against critics, spreading propaganda on mainstream media and imposing autocratic rule in all institutions under Vucic, which they say stokes divisions in society.
On Friday, protesters in Belgrade blocked a key bridge and motorway in the capital to press their demands. Protests also have been held in other Serbian cities and towns, in an outpouring of grief and anger over the shootings and the populist authorities.
Vucic described the bridge blockade as harassment, while he and other officials and media under his control sought to downplay the numbers of protesters.
