Photo: MCThe founder of the "New Optimism" movement in Zrenjan, whose car tires were punctured after Saturday's protest, has no doubt that it is a message, but he is not afraid at all
In the night between Saturday and Sunday, someone slashed both front tires of Branislav Guta Grubački's car. Grubački is a civil activist, the founder of the "New Optimism" movement, and the initiator of the "Serbia without violence" protest in Zrenjanin.
Grubački says that on Saturday he was at the "Serbia against violence - Everything must stop" protest in Novi Sad, with the suspended Zrenjanin high school teacher Senka Jankov, who was also one of the speakers.
"After the protest, we returned to Zrenjanin, and I only realized on Sunday during the day that both of my front tires were punctured with an awl," says Grubacki.
He adds that he reported the entire event to the Zrenjanin police, but says he does not expect the authorities to react because "there are more serious things that they should investigate."
Grubacki says that he interprets tire punctures as "a kind of message from certain circles of people."
"I don't feel threatened, but this is completely unbelievable to me because I have never experienced this kind of pressure. I live in Zrenjanin, in a part of town where things like this don't happen. "Nothing spectacular happened, but it's unbelievable to me that both front tires were punctured with an awl," he told 021.rs.
"This tells me that my activism and the fact that I work as part of the organization 'Zrenjanin against violence' is something that is problematic for them and that they are sending me a message to be afraid or to withdraw, which certainly will not happen," he said.
The protest organization "Zrenjanin against violence" announced that they demand from the Zrenjanin police to find the perpetrator as soon as possible.
"We wonder if this is a warning to Grubacki, but also to other citizens, who have been protesting against violence in society for weeks?" Neither the rain nor the storm prevented the men and women of Zrenjanin from expressing their dissatisfaction with the state of society in the past weeks and joining protest walks. It will be the same this Saturday, June 24, starting at 18 p.m., on the promenade next to the lake in the Mala Amerika neighborhood. On Saturday, Zrenjanin, together with many other cities in our country, will say even more strongly and decisively that it is against violence, but also the authoritarian, undemocratic and reckless government of Aleksandar Vučić", they concluded in the announcement.
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