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Blockades and provocateurs: "You can see that they are expecting a reaction"

November 29, 2024, 14:48 p.m Nemanja Rujevic
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An attempt at provocation by driving a car through the crowd
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SNS provocateurs playing "disaffected citizens" all over Serbia caused incidents during commemorative blockades. In Belgrade, a man pushed people with a car, and an elderly lady slapped him

And this Friday, "dissatisfied citizens" all over Serbia attacked peaceful commemorative street blockades that, symbolically, started at 11:52 and lasted fifteen minutes for the fifteen people who died under the Novi Sad canopy.

There are more than indications that it is not any "disgruntled citizens" but gathered provocateurs close to the ruling party or even its members.

There were two such people in the Takovska Street blockade in front of RTS, one of whom pushed the people in the blockade with his car for fifteen minutes. Like, he was in a hurry - although he definitely didn't want to, like most drivers, turn the car around and go the other way.

The "Vremena" reporter heard him with his own ears while, walking around the car, he called someone on the phone and asked "where is the reinforcement".

However, there were no "reinforcements" and the "citizen in a hurry" did not run over anyone in the end, but had to wait at the end of the blockade.

By the way, MP Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, who was the first to reach the impatient car, shouted to the crowd that no one should react to provocations or accidentally hit a car.

The "lady" slapped the citizen

Andreja from Zvezdara, who took part in the blockade of the intersection of Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra and Batutova this Friday, contacted the editors of "Vremena" and received a slap from a woman she considers a provocateur.

He says several "ladies" of about sixty years old were elbowing each other and cursing the citizens.

"One spat and shouted at us 'poo poo shit, monkeys, cattle', then she insulted my father. Another elbowed people in the ribs and you can see exactly that she is expecting a reaction. But when I turned around, she slapped me. At first I was confused and I just told her to 'get out of the way now', and she cursed and continued to hit people with her elbow," says Andreja.

"I had the desire to enter the conflict, but I didn't because the people around me begged me not to react." Because they do it so that we would react. Like in bad movies with desperate direction," she adds.

As he says, the appearance of such people at gatherings is equally heartbreaking and tragic. "The idea that the loss of one, let alone fifteen, lives is not worth standing for fifteen minutes." They are provocateurs, but they are also our fellow citizens."

Basketball with announcement

As reported by portal 021, "disgruntled" citizens appeared to insult the gathered citizens in front of the Novi Sad Railway Station. And then those same "disaffected" were filmed returning to the premises of SNS.

Members of the Serbian Progressive Party, who argued with the participants of the "Stop, Serbia" action and during the 15 minutes of silence for the victims at the Railway Station, returned to the party premises after the blockade of the intersection on Mihajla Pupin Boulevard in Novi Sad ended. pic.twitter.com/W3htY9rKRJ

- Radio 021 (@ Radio021) November 29, 2024

Nebojša Petković, one of the residents of Gornji Nedeljice who is fighting against the lithium mine, posted on Twitter a video from Loznica where one of the "disgruntled citizens" attacked people with a bat, but quickly retreated.

Jare started with the bat and realized that it had two ends and started the "tactical withdrawal" action. Loznica today 💪💪💪 pic.twitter.com/lSDCMvXn54

— Nebojsa Petković (@cikafranjo) November 29, 2024

N1 reports that Dragan Jocič, a member of the SNS employed at Zelenil in Sombor, came to the blockade in Sombor as a provocateur. The same man was filmed two days ago in gungula during the blockade of Belgrade on the water where knives were also pulled on the activists.

If only it were artificial intelligence

Previously, SSP vice-president Marinika Tepić published an audio recording in which, as she claims, a high-ranking SNS official from Vojvodina, Damir Zobenica, is orchestrating provocations at the "Stop Serbia" rallies this Friday.

On the recording, a voice resembling Zobeničin's can be heard telling someone that it is necessary to organize quickly in every place, except in front of the railway station in Novi Sad, to insult the opposition.

Tepić assessed it as an incitement to civil war, and President Aleksandar Vučić reported that Zobenica told him that the recording was not authentic, but the result of artificial intelligence.

On the streets, however, among the provocateurs there is often no artificial or any other intelligence, and the question is when they will provoke a serious conflict somewhere.

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