Photo: FoNetCertain groups close to the opposition parties are trying to occupy key positions within the protest movement, the students warn. One of those called, Stevan Filipović and Tanasije Marinković, answered them
One year ago, on November 29, the students in the blockade sent three requests to the authorities: publication of all documentation related to the reconstruction of the railway station in Novi Sad, initiation of criminal proceedings against persons suspected of physical assault students and professors of FDU, and the dismissal of criminal charges against arrested and detained students at protests, as well as the suspension of already initiated criminal proceedings, and an increase in allocated funds for state faculties in the amount of 20 percent. Later, they demanded the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections.
Today, one year later, the students in the blockade in front of the Rectorate of the University of Belgrade paid their respects to the victims of the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad with a 16-minute silence.
Warning
Yesterday, Friday, the students in the blockade sent a statement to the public in which they state that certain "particular groups", close to the opposition parties, are trying to put pressure on the students and take key positions within the protest movement.
According to the students in the blockade, they are the "NS choir", i.e. lawyer Srđan Kovačević, a part of the Survey Commission, certain circles of the Rebel University led by Professor Tanasi Marinković, the activist organizations "SviĆe", "Mladi Borba" and "Bravo", and several individuals.
Stevan Filipovic
Director Stevan Filipović, who the students said was a "false comrade" of the student movement, reacted to their post.
In his posts on social networks, he stated that lawyer Zdenko Tomanović was responsible for the statement accusing him. He then published on his profile the announcements of the students in the blockade of the PMF, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Philosophy and Economics in Novi Sad, as well as the announcement of the students of the State University in Novi Pazar, interpreting them to be talking about the same thing as him.
Tanasije Marinković
The professor of the Faculty of Law, Professor Tanasije Marinković, also reacted, whom the students accused of attempts to "co-opt the student movement", that is, attempts to prevent the independence of that movement.
He said that the statement of the students "is in contradiction with the students in the blockade".
"As their professor, as a professor of human rights, I must draw attention to the fact that this type of targeting of individuals, and even political parties, and opposition political parties, is political discrimination, discrimination on a political basis, that it is a criminal offense, that it is hate speech, that it is harassment and humiliating treatment, that not even the incompetent institution Aleksandar Vučić can forbid any of the mentioned people from exercising their human rights and contributing in a legitimate way to this fight against the regime of Aleksandar Vučić. and that non-competent institution that wrote that text does not have that right," said Marinković for N1.
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