Bikers are adults, we have our own attitude and we know how to protect it, and we also know how to protect the people we love, including students, says biker from Novi Sad Vladimir Jovicic for "Vreme"
Bikers will continue to absolutely support all actions students in the hope that they will persevere and that we will change something for the better in this country, member biker from Novi Sad Vladimir Jovičić told "Vreme".
Bikers have announced that they will come to a big protest in Novi Sad and the blockade of three bridges in that city immediately after the students announced the blockade plan. A long column of bikers came from Belgrade, and they were joined by bikers from Vojvodina and the central parts of Serbia, so in the end there were more than 2700 motorcycles in the column in Novi Sad.
"They are still children, in some situations they don't know how to behave because they are threatened and written all kinds of things about them, and it is normal that they need some kind of protection." We provide them with that protection, but only within the framework of what they want and in the way they want, and that is always only peacefully and through conversation," says Jovičić.
He explains that bikers communicate with students through multiple sources, because the student organization is quite decentralized.
We can learn a lot from students
He adds that students send requests to bikers if they need help.
"We drove them from the faculty to the protests and back, and when various people came to the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad to create problems for them, we, together with their professors and citizens, tried to give them security with our presence and numbers. We always behave exclusively in accordance with how the children want us to behave. We can learn a lot from them and we try not to go beyond those limits," says Jovičić.
He also mentions that the bikers brought help to students at the faculties and collected 100 mattresses before the protest so that the students who came to Novi Sad from other cities would have something to sleep on, but he points out that the help of the bikers is "less important" compared to the struggle of the students.
He adds that the bikers were in front of the building of that media house when the so-called "Slobodni Dnevnik" was broadcast, and in front of the art school "Bogdan Šuput" as a sign of support for the workers of Radio-Television Vojvodina, after a thug tried to attack students and teachers who blocked the intersection at 11.52:XNUMX a.m. the previous day.
Without students, Serbia has no future
When asked why bikers decided to support the students, Jovicic repeats what we have heard from a large number of people in Serbia over the past few months.
"We decided to support students because they are the future of these areas, without them our country has no future." We elders have been trying to make something all these past decades, but we did everything wrong and we all agreed that it is time to let our children try to make a future for themselves first, and then for us, because we are not all that old. We were all surprised, because years ago we underestimated them, maybe it's a harsh word. We didn't think that they were like that, but that they were uninterested, and in fact those children turned out to be fantastic and such emperors", Jovicic does not hide his enthusiasm for the students.
Bikers as "dangerous types"
There is practically no reliable information about how bikers are organized in Serbia, and media reports about them are mostly reduced to bombastic tabloid speculations. What is known for sure is that before every year, bikers dress up as Santa Claus and bring packages to sick children.
When asked how this support fits in with the stereotype of bikers as "dangerous types", he says:
"We always say what we think." That stereotype is not just a stereotype. Bikers are adults, we have our own attitude and we know how to protect it, and we also know how to protect the people we love, including students. Among us there are many educated, educated and cultured people who know how to solve problematic situations in a normal, peaceful way. We did not want to allow, nor will we allow in the future, anyone to attack children. We cannot protect them from the attacks on social networks that they have been exposed to since the beginning of the blockades, but we can be with them and give them security, and let the other side take it as they want."
An eight-kilometer-long column
Jovičić states that the column of bikers in Novi Sad during the recent blockade of the bridges in that city was eight kilometers long, that 500 motorcycles were planned to participate, and that there were more than 2700 of them, "which has never happened before in Serbia".
He adds that the bikers from Belgrade provided about thirty guards who took care of the movement of the motorbikes and safety, and that the traffic police was as correct as possible.
"The traffic police met all our ideas, some of which were not simple at all, such as the idea of the motorcade passing through Novi Sad. We essentially blocked the entire city and the traffic police agreed to it 10 minutes before we left, which means they could have turned us away, because it was very complex to organize it, but they still didn't turn us away," says Jovicic.
He adds that the plan was to make a circle through the whole of Novi Sad so that they would not meet their column anywhere.
"We made the biggest possible circle and in the end we joined the 'tail' of the column and waited 15 minutes for the rear to pass," says Jovicic.
He states that the largest number of bikers were from Belgrade, and that they, in agreement with the traffic police, went along the old road to Novi Sad and tried to stop in all the places they passed through so that bikers from those places would not join them.
He adds that bikers from other cities in Vojvodina also came to Novi Sad, but also from Kraljevo, Valjevo, Čačak... According to his estimate, there were between 400 and 500 motorbikes from Novi Sad.
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