Certain 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
"The collapse of the canopy is the result of the actions of an organized criminal group. We believe that there are grounds for suspicion that the President of the Republic is at the head of that criminal group," said Tanasije Marinković, a member of the Commission of Inquiry for the investigation of responsibility for the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, on Wednesday.
"I think it is wrong to ignore Vučić, to pretend that he has already fallen and lost all sense. With him, the rational and the irrational intertwine. Both are strong, and that is why all responsible parts of society must unite and organize in order for him to be replaced in a legal and democratic way. That approach does not contradict the slogan 'You are not competent'. I am proud of the Serbian students who had enough knowledge or, rather, the feeling to understand how much he, malignant narcissist, that attitude hits"
While students and professors have been resisting the regime of Aleksandar Vučić for months, the government retaliates with economic pressure and attacks on academic autonomy. In an interview for Vreme, Professor Tanasije Marinković explains why the university has become the last line of defense of a free society and why the government wants to break it.
