The 13-year-old’s parents were detained soon after the shooting and charged for failing to keep weapons out of reach of their son.

The shooting at Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade on May 3, 2023 shocked the nation which is used to crisis but where school shootings had never happened before.

A Belgrade court on Monday sentenced the parents of a 13-year-old boy to prison after he shot dead nine students and a security guard at an elementary school in Serbia's capital last year.

The parents of a teenage boy who killed nine children and a security guard in a mass shooting at a school in Serbia last year have been jailed. The boy's father, Vladimir Kecmanoviæ, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years imprisonment on Monday,

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade on Monday handed maximum child neglect sentences to the parents of K K, a teenage boy who killed nine pupils and a security staff member and wounded six more people in a shooting spree in his primary school in central Belgrade on May 3, 2023.

Shooter, Kosta Kecmanovic, was 13 when he committed the crime and therefore too young to face a trial, according to Serbian law