well, they say they should be stored in a safe and that nobody should have access to them apart from the owner. now it seems that somehow, the boy who is now in custody gained access to notjust one, but two pistols which is father ended when she had legal permits. the guns were recovered by police and the rest of the boy in the yard of the skill and what is very interesting is that serbia with these weapons, as you mentioned, from yugoslav times when the time when everybody was expected to undergo military service and have an ak 47 that they could use if they were mobilised in a time of emergency. a lot of those weapons are still floating around but there are still floating around but there are 900,000 registered permits in serbia currently for weapons. that is out of a population of about six and a half million people so seven
somebody who is an imposing figure with a military style uniform and certainly not any sort of weapons but somebody who is there to welcome children to school, to ensure that things are running smoothly at the gate. the atmosphere tends to be fairly relaxed. people think of school there is a safe place together and get their education. they don t think of it as a place they re going to come under the sort of threat because there is literally no history in serbia of this kind of mass school shooting at all and this particular event has taken place in particular event has taken place in part of belgrade but is very affluent. it is in a district where there are a lot of foreign embassies, restaurants, it is pretty much the last place you would expect an event like this to take place. i think you can see the outpouring of grief and emotion. candles and flowers being made. $5 grief and emotion. candles and flowers being made. grief and emotion. candles and flowers being made. as she said,
police say it is going to be very difficult for them to because of this age of criminal responsibility. fundamentally, he is in care of social workers who are assessing him, setting a psychiatric condition. checking when he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol in this boy, apparently, was named the social services. he had spent time with a mental health issue last year, it was reported, so the social workers became involved at that stage so, at the moment, it is a social work issue other than a criminal investigation at least as far as the boy is concerned. i d make you said that serbia is awash with guns hanging overfrom make you said that serbia is awash with guns hanging over from the wars of the 1990s but shootings are rare. what a security like in schools in serbia? well, this guard shot and killed at the school, he sounded like the kind of figure that i would see at my children s school when they were at school in belgrade. not
guns illegally for every 100 people in serbia. if we take into account those old ak 47s as well that is closer to 40 per 100 people in serbia. that is the third highest rate of gun ownership in the world. thank you very much forjoining us this evening. a sad event there in belgrade earlier today. a sad event there in belgrade earlier today. dozens of people have been arrested as a result of an international police investigation into the ndrangheta, the italian mafia in calabria. they long ago, surpassed the cosa nostra in size and reach. and particularly hard to crack because their are bound by family loyalty rather than any loyalty to the organisaiton itself. the suspects arrested are accused of money laundering, criminal tax evasion, fraud and the smuggling of drugs. the crackdown was part of a coordinated investigation by police in germany, belgium, france, italy, portugal and spain. live now to rome where we can speak to our italy correspondent sofia bettiza for more on this. tell