Young Man Falls From Kalemegdan Rampart, Seriously Injured
A young man, 18 or 19, fell around midnight from a rampart of the Belgrade Fortress about ten meters high and suffered serious head injuries. Police are investigating.
A young man fell from a rampart at Kalemegdan, near the Military Museum, around midnight on the night of October 10 to 11 and suffered serious head injuries. The walls he fell from are about 10 meters high, according to Telegraf and Kurir.
He was on the rampart with friends, above the exhibited cannons and tanks. The circumstances of the fall have not been established, and police are looking into them.
What is known about how he fell?
According to Telegraf and Kurir, whose reports are nearly identical and are therefore counted as one source, police were the first to arrive and found the injured man’s frightened friends. The friends told officers they did not see the moment of the fall. They cannot say whether he slipped or jumped, but, as the reports put it, they say with certainty that nobody pushed him.
That is a statement from friends, not a police conclusion. We found no official police statement on the circumstances of the fall by the time of publication. The fall itself is confirmed by a report on the past night in Belgrade published by RTS and Novosti.
How old is the injured man?
The sources disagree. Telegraf and Kurir say the injured man is 19-year-old L. S., while RTS and Novosti write about a young man of 18. None of the reports we read says where the age comes from, so we cannot establish which is correct.
What is his condition?
He was found unconscious, with serious head injuries and heavy bleeding. An Emergency Medical Service team arrived soon after police, treated him at the scene and took him to a medical facility. The name of the facility and his current condition have not been released.
A hard night for emergency crews
The fall at Kalemegdan is one of the cases in a report on a night that RTS described as difficult for the teams of the Institute for Emergency Medicine. RTS cites 156 calls, 28 of them from public places, while Novosti, citing the doctor on duty, writes about 157 interventions, also with 28 in public places. One source is counting calls and the other interventions, so the figures do not fully match.
The same report says a young man died after midnight in a traffic accident on Kralja Milana Street, near Beogradjanka, and that Belgrade saw five more traffic accidents in which four people were lightly injured.
Police are still establishing all the circumstances of the incident.
