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Election 2023.

Elections in the shadow of violence

December 17, 2023, 09:56 p.m N. WILL
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In the previous three days, three opposition activists were physically attacked in Vrbas, Novi Sad and Belgrade. According to what is known so far, the violence is directly related to their political involvement

Three days ago, a member of the Freedom and Justice Party, Adorjan Čizmar from Kucura near Vrbas, was brutally beaten while he was handing out leaflets in mailboxes. The thugs knocked him to the ground, beat him severely until he had an asthma attack. He received serious injuries, and they would have been much worse if he hadn't had pepper spray with him, which he used to stop the attackers.

The SSP demanded the immediate arrest of the batterer.‌

The organization "Free Vrbas" also demanded the arrest of the thugs, and reminded that attacks on opposition activists since the Serbian Progressive Party came to power in Vrbas are not new, but that no case of attacks on political dissidents has been solved.​​

They recalled the gruesome case of violence and kidnapping of Democratic Party activists from 2013. This event was once criticized by a former high-ranking official of the SNS, the deceased Vladimir Cvijan.

Friday night attack

On Friday evening in Novi Sad, an activist of the Zajedno party Srđan Đurić, who is a well-known anti-fascist activist, was brutally beaten. Photos published on social networks show serious injuries that caused him to spend the night in the Emergency Center.

A group of young men approached Đurić, called him "Ustasha", knocked him to the ground and beat him brutally with their feet. This is not the first attack on Đurić and Novi Sad activists of the Zajedno party. Because of their activism, a judicial campaign is being conducted against them, that is, the government files numerous misdemeanor and criminal charges against them.

Together for Novi Sad, he announced that they still cannot say with certainty who the "potential mastermind" of the attack is, but he certainly knows that this party, as well as other opposition actors, is constantly declared by the government to be "anti-Serbian, traitorous, and an enemy of society".​​

They also reminded that Srdjan Đurić was repeatedly threatened by ultra-right organizations, and that "neo-Nazi and fascist symbols are regularly drawn under the window of the apartment where he lives, which the police department has not reacted to so far."

Attack on Zvezdara

Finally, yesterday at Zvezdara in Belgrade, a woman who was supposed to be a representative of the permanent composition of the electoral committee in front of the "Serbia against violence" coalition was attacked and injured. This was disclosed by the Green-Left Front.

This party called on the competent state authorities to investigate another politically motivated attack and to bring the perpetrators to justice. "The Green-Left Front strongly condemns this cowardly act, and once again tells the citizens of Serbia that we are not afraid and that we are even more determined to liberate Serbia from violence," the statement said.

A few days ago, the premises of this party in Belgrade were vandalized, and on that occasion a great deal of material damage was caused.

Today in Ruski Krstur, in the municipality of Kula, polling station 34 attacked a member of the local election commission (LIK) in front of the coalition Serbia against violence, it was announced from that list. A member of the coalition Serbia against violence established that persons with false accreditation at the polling station kept parallel records of the voters who went out.

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