The Belgrade city authorities’ plan to install a monument commemorating Serbia’s former Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, assassinated in 2003, has angered government opponents.
The monument in the shape of a broken arrow, said to symbolise Djindjic’s devotion to Serbia’s progress as well as commemorating his untimely death, was selected from 40 proposed works.
“The city [authorities] wanted a monument that is not classical, but modern, just like Djindjic’s life was,” city manager Goran Vesic told Serbian national broadcaster RTS.
However, some said that the current authorities, led by President Aleksandar Vucic’s Serbian Progressive Party, have no right to claim Djindjic’s legacy because they were bitter enemies during the 1990s.
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