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How the Informer reported on the trampling of a man at the Faculty of Law and targeted the prosecutor
The incident at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade in which the driver of a car tried to drive through a blocked intersection and then reversed, knocking down a 90-year-old man, was the headlines on Thursday (May 14). Informer's Collegium.
The editor-in-chief of Informer spoke about him extensively and in his own manner in the live program Dragan J. Vučićević, first joining from the car, and then continuing the address from the studio.
He blamed the events at the Faculty of Law, as he called them, on "terrorist blockaders", who, he added, attacked "an innocent man who just wanted to pass through the intersection".
The announcement by the police that the driver was arrested was also surprising.
"For this, they detained the driver, the driver whose car they smashed? Some individuals in the police must explain what this is all about. The blockaders-terrorists did this today in Belgrade. They are the culprits. He wanted to escape from the mob, from maniacs, jerks. He accidentally hit that man," said Vučićević.
He also said that it is shocking to him that someone who is 90 years old is participating in blockades.
"Maybe that man was just passing by. The driver, realistically, is not guilty of anything. He is a victim. We must not allow theses to be exchanged. The man moved backwards to avoid the mob," Vučićević said, among other things.

He then called the students in the blockade "inarticulate thieves, implementers of the colored revolution" in Serbia, saying that all the recordings of today's event clearly show that they are guilty.
He also said that the "terrorist blockaders" robbed the man, that they took acid water from his trunk.
When a fellow student told him that the MUP had announced that the driver was detained and is suspected of attempted murder - in popular terms, Vučićević was foaming at the mouth.
"Murder in an attempt?", he asked and added: "Well, you are not normal. You in that prosecutor's office are not normal, you are sick. This state urgently needs to do something. According to what law, prosecutors, gang of bullies, is it allowed to block intersections and streets? A disaster. This is really not normal. We no longer have a state in that part of the prosecution and judicial authorities. What kind of message are you sending the blocking gang, and you in the prosecutor's office and you in the courts?", he said. Vučićević.

He then proceeded to assign a series of epithets to the prosecutors, calling them the yellow gang, the worst scum, and repeated several times that the incident was the result of an attack by a blockader on a car driver.
"The blockaders-terrorists are the only culprits. Those who claim otherwise are the worst villains who are trying to implement a colored revolution that failed them," said Vučićević.
He was joined by a colleague in the studio, who asked if prosecutor DD should be known, and then said his full name.
Vučićević then asked in the program that the appointed prosecutor say whether he made such a decision, and to explain it.
After a break in the Collegium program, the targeting of the prosecutor continued. Vučićević, now from the studio, continued in his own style, and while the photos of the prosecutor were changing on the screen, he called him, among other things, "the opposite of the prosecutor", "the jerk of the prosecutor", "the old man".
"We will make you famous. Look at this muzzle, this look unencumbered by thought," continued Vučićević, adding that the same prosecutor made decisions in cases from the beginning of the blockades.
Photos of the prosecutor changed on the screen while Vučićević continued to talk about "blockades" and "color revolution".
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