Serbian citizens who have been protesting weekly against President Aleksandar Vucic’s regime stormed the building of the Serbian national broadcaster RTS on Saturday evening, and were forcefully expelled by police.

Some of the protesters were injured when police in riot gear cleared the premises around 10.30pm.

Opposition leaders followed citizens who entered RTS’ premises, among them the leader of the Alliance for Serbia group Dragan Djilas and the head of far-right Dveri movement Bosko Obradovic, who was eventually dragged out of the premises by police.

Djilas and Obradovic demanded for protest organisers to be allowed to speak live on air, but the demonstrators, who regularly criticise RTS for its pro-government stance, were kicked out without this happening.

“We aren’t asking for much – an immediate broadcast with participation of a representative of the organisers of the protests, not of politicians,” Obradovic told protesters inside the RTS building, while calling on citizens to avoid violence.

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About 50 riot police were deployed to the scene to clear out the premises. But after being thrown out of the building, many of the protesters sat in front of RTS singing the Serbian national anthem and chanting.

In two separate press conference during and after the storming of RTS, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said that all those who entered the building illegally will be prosecuted and that the police acted according to the law and did not resort to violence.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has called a press conference for 12pm on Sunday to address the demonstration.

Before entering RTS, the protesters gathered at 6pm in front of Belgrade University’s Faculty of Philosophy, where anti-Vucic protests have been starting each Saturday for the past three months.

On arrival at RTS, some protesters pelted the building with eggs.

The so-called “1 of 5 million” protests started on December 8, 2018. They were triggered by an incident a few weeks earlier on November 23, when an opposition politician, Borko Stefanovic, was attacked and beaten in the southern town of Krusevac.

Initially, the protests were held only in Belgrade. But in January, people in more than 30 Serbian cities and towns joined in with their own protests.

Most recently, the opposition called for snap general elections and announced a mass protest on April 13 if that demand is not met by the Progressive Party-led government.