Minister of Public Investment Darko Glisic he told the parents of the future students not to enroll children in "blockade faculties", because they will be "returned to them in a coffin like they returned the girl from Šabac", referring to the death of a student at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade on March 26.
Glišić, without any hesitation, misused her death for an attack on University of Belgrade.
"Imagine now the parents who are watching this. Should they enroll their child in Belgrade University or in a faculty where the dean is a blockader? That they recruit their child into their infantry, that they send him to fight in cities all over Serbia. That they store pyrotechnic material, that they store narcotics. That they drag them into that blockading sect of theirs. And that they lose their minds," Glišić said on Pink TV.
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Pointing out that he is "very aware of the weight of the words he will say", Glišić did not stop at unargued labeling:
"I have to tell the public. Do not enroll children in blockading colleges, because they will return them to you like they returned this girl from Šabac, in a coffin. Do not enroll children there where you see that the dean is still a blockader. You do not enroll children there to learn something. And children do not go there for knowledge. You send children there to be their infantry, their army," Glišić said.
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Joint regime campaign against the insurgent University
Glišić's defamation was part of a joint action by the regime directed against the University, coordinated with the action of the Criminal Police Directorate, which raided the Rectorate on Tuesday.
In addition, Glišić's defamation, which crossed the border of necrophilia, is part of a joint effort by the authorities Aleksandar Vučić with the intention of dealing with rebellious state colleges and universities, and in favor of private higher education institutions.
In April 2025, when it became clear that he could not suppress the student rebellion, Vučić announced a plan for the state to redirect part of the budget funds intended for higher education to private faculties, explaining that he wanted to "strengthen the private sector" and "break the monopoly of state faculties".
A particular problem for the regime is the student demand to increase the allocation for higher education by 20 percent or about 108 million euros. The government formally adopted that request, but analysts assessed that the government changed the redistribution concept - the money would also go to private institutions, which was assessed as a political maneuver to weaken the influence of state universities.
According to Vučić's announcement, the new law would enable a greater number of students at private faculties to receive the right to budget funding, which was not common until now.
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At the time, he assessed that "private colleges manage resources better" than state ones and that the goal is for state and private colleges to compete in the education market.
Analysts and part of the academic community assessed that plan as a political decision without economic justification, and warned that financing private faculties from public funds would weaken state universities, create unfair competition and enable the government to have greater political influence on higher education.
Glišić has now joined the hunt for state universities, targeting parents' fears and presenting universities as war zones, not places where academic education is acquired and the development of critical thinking is encouraged.
The rector of the University in Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, pointed out the essence of the fear of the regime, which "is not afraid of crime, but of education".
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