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'Planned violence ahead of the elections', another arrest in Serbia: Media

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, OCT 24 - Another person has been arrested in Serbia, in the university city of Novi Sad—a hub for the student movement— on charges of having "planning acts of violence for election day," which falls tomorrow. On Wednesday, seven other people were arrested in Novi Sad, Zemun, and Belgrade on similar charges of varying severity. This was reported by the state broadcaster RTS, citing the Belgrade Prosecutor General's Office. According to RTS, the arrested individual—identified by the initials D.A. and aged 32— "was found in possession of materials suspected of being intended for use in the unrest that the suspects planned to provoke in Belgrade on election day." According to the prosecutor's office, as cited by the media, "improvised explosive devices with fuses, cans with fuses, a gas cylinder with a firecracker attached, several packages of fireworks, 23 steel spikes, 84 improvised spikes made of nails, 88 bulletproof vests, 93 bulletproof helmets, 98 bulletproof gloves, and more." (ANSA).