Photo: FoNet/Ana PaunkovićThere will be no classes in the part of the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school where the massacre took place last year. It remains to be seen exactly what kind of memorial center dedicated to the victims will be created
The Government of Serbia has made a decision to exclude the part of the "Vladislav Ribnikar" school of witchcraft where a mass crime took place in May 2023 from teaching activities until a decision is made on what the memorial center will look like.
It is a school building that can be entered from Kralja Milutina Street in the center of Belgrade.
At the Government session on Friday, a decision was made to form a working group dedicated to the memorial center.
As stated, this was done at the request of the parents of the children who died, who formed a multidisciplinary team that should specify exactly what the area of remembrance for the victims of the tragedy will look like and what its contents will be.
In the announcement of the Government, it is written that the conditions will be ensured so that classes at the elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar" can take place normally, despite the fact that the entire wing of the school will no longer be used for classes.
Division between parents
As "Vreme" wrote in December, far from the eyes of the public, spears were being broken about the memorial center dedicated to the victims in "Ribnikar".
All parents believe that the memorial center is necessary, but some of them would like the school to be demolished, others that the memorial center should be in the closed part of the school where the shooting happened, and others that only the classroom where the most victims were killed be dedicated to memory.
The parents of the victims and others who support them have protested several times, claiming that the school management, most of the teachers and parents actually only want a "memorial corner" in the crime scene where there were the most victims.
Žarko Cvejić, the father of the girl who was not injured in the shooting, told "Vreme" at the time that the memorialization of the entire wing of the school was the least that had to be done.
"Because it is the only solution worthy of the victims, but also of the children who would eventually attend classes in another part of the school," he added. That's the only way, said Cvejić, that other children would not attend school in the "stratište" and "be forever marked by it like our surviving children were marked".
On May 2023, XNUMX, a thirteen-year-old school student killed nine students and a school guard with a gun.
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