Apart from the laureates of six Golden Arenas from Serbia, among whom was Vladimir Arsenijević, who was beaten in Belgrade, Serbian students were also applauded at the Pula Festival on Wednesday evening. Croatian artists called for solidarity with their Serbian colleagues
"I found myself surrounded by devastatingly young people. And I know that they are young - they vandalize our premises several times a month, we have surveillance cameras, they are always young, beardless faces. It is a man's world, made up of young men, who really have nothing better to do than destroy someone's property or beat someone up. But with terrible conviction."
"I found myself surrounded by devastatingly young people," says writer Vladimir Arsenijević for the new issue of "Vremena". He talked about how he was beaten and whether he had any lessons
The Pula Festival condemned the attack on the writer Vladimir Arsenijević in Belgrade. He invited the audience to come to the screenings of the film "Three Weeks Later", which he co-wrote. This film won the award for the best European film in Karlovy Vary - on the same day when Arsenijević was beaten by hooligans in Belgrade because he was preparing a commemorative meeting dedicated to Srebrenica
Vladimir Arsenijević said that he received a large number of messages of support, but that the attack on him did not surprise him
The Board of Directors of the "Krokodil" Association requested a public condemnation of the attack on Vladimir Arsenijević and an immediate reaction of the competent authorities to find the perpetrators, as well as an investigation into their instigators and instigators.
After Vladimir Arsenijević was beaten under the Branko Bridge, numerous condemnations from the public followed. The Serbian PEN Center, civil organizations and opposition parties demand an investigation, assessing that the attack represents a serious attack on freedom of expression and the right to public action
The beating of the writer Vladimir Arsenijević under the Branko bridge caused strong reactions. Writer Dragan Velikić for "Vreme" assesses that the attack was not an isolated incident, but a continuation of years of escalation of violence against citizens and political dissidents in Serbia.
Evil crawled under the bridge and there, hidden from the light, was silent and waited. When Vladimir Arsenijević got out of the taxi, Belgrade was once again loomed over by the same man who prevented Ron Haviv's exhibition, prevented the holding of the first Pride Parade, set fire to the Bajrakli Mosque and the Embassy of the United States of America, and vandalized the city center during the 2010 Pride Parade.
On the eve of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide, the writer Vladimir Arsenijević reported that he was attacked under the Branko bridge, where a civil society commemoration was supposed to be held
"Mama mama mama", I sighed and moaned, "mama-mama", and my tears were big - finally, finally! - one after the other they poured down the cheeks as if they would never stop"
Journalist Danica Vučenić and writer Vladimir Arsenijević for the portal "Vremena" on the parallel between the protests of the nineties and today's "Serbia against violence" protests
"I am also afraid that the demands formulated at these protests are too cautious. What does it even mean to cancel a reality show on one television? We all have cable and a choice of 500 different channels and each of us can choose not to watch such content. But this is not the case with our history books and textbooks. What about all the things we teach our children about? They have no choice. They have to replicate what is served to them as teaching material and are graded for it. This is where a real and deep brainwashing takes place."
Due to the rain, tomorrow's ceremonial opening of the festival, as well as all programs on Friday, will be in the Cinema Hall of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, and all subsequent ones will be in the usual place - in front of the Museum of Yugoslavia. The novelty of this year's KROKODIL are all-day programs
Over the weekend, three young men wrote graffiti with threatening messages and hate speech at the entrance to the premises of KROKODIL Members of this association were sent numerous threats after they removed the nationalist mural in Slavia, and after they took humanitarian aid to Ukraine
The association "Krokodil" is again taking humanitarian aid to Ukraine in a van, and from there they will bring 400 books in their language to Ukrainians in Serbia. The money was donated by eight local publishers
"Our public space is ruled by football hooligans, retrograde and directly evil ideologies are promoted, figures of convicted public criminals whose crimes are not questioned are placed on the walls of buildings, and they are not glorified on the assumption that they did not commit them, but glorified precisely because what they were doing what they were doing"
"Ukrainians believe that they have no reason to discuss the conflict with Russia because there is no conflict on their side. They did not threaten a single millimeter of Russian territory. There is only Russian aggression"
