"Blockades left chaos behind", "There is complete chaos in the faculty building and the premises where the students stayed in the blockade and it takes at least four days to prepare the building hygienically for the upcoming entrance exam", "Broken inventory, stained walls and damaged equipment in SKC-u" - these are just some of the allegations that could be read in the tabloids in the previous days.
On the other hand, there are denials from students in the blockade about what certain institutions look like where they stayed for months after they were kicked out.
There are also criticisms of professors of certain faculties against their colleagues who expel and accuse students.
In the general whirlwind of various claims and announcements, the tabloids play their favorite game - accusing the students in the blockade of creating chaos.
The students in the blockade talk about the fact that thanks to them, cultural institutions, such as the Student Cultural Center (SKC), finally became open to the public after a long time and got the role they deserve.
The case of SKC
Photo: Lenka PavlovićStudent cultural center
In the middle of February, the students in the blockade broke into SKC in Belgrade, occupied it and, as they stated, liberated it.
In the months that followed, they held numerous events, stayed in it and, as they say, allowed the public to enter behind a door that had been locked for years.
This kind of intrusion was not liked by the representatives of the authorities and critics of the students in the blockade, so there were numerous allegations of their vandalism.
In May, she is the president of the Assembly Ana Brnabic stated that the students blocking the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade forced people to step on the flag of Serbia in order to enter the exhibition, stating that stepping on the flag is "a political message that fully reflects the character of student blockades".
The students soon responded, stating that the flag of Serbia was found crumpled and soiled, and as such was part of the exhibition.
Two and a half months later, on July 22, the police broke into SKC and dispersed the students.
This was followed by tabloid reports that SKC was in complete disarray, and that the students had left chaos behind.
"After several months of blockades and raids on public institutions, the premises of the Student Cultural Center (SKC) remained completely devastated. A group of students who call themselves 'blockaders' left the building, and today the press teams, together with the Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković, entered the SKC for the first time and found scenes of complete chaos," Serbia announced today.
As they further stated, "on the spot, pictures of broken inventory, stained walls and damaged equipment were recorded. SKC employees were taken aback and in shock, and what they found testified to the enormous damage caused to this cultural institution."
This was followed by the denial of the students, who blocked this cultural institution for months.
The liberated SKC, unlike acting director Slavoljub Veselinović and the tabloid media, was never afraid of truth and freedom, the students of the liberated SKC stated in a statement.
"So you can see how SKC looked before the beginning of the summer program, after the break during the Vidovdan protest and the subsequent blockades, a few days before the broadcast of the film 'Tour de jour', and only a few days before the police entered and seized this building from the students," they add, publishing photos.
The case of the Faculty of Philology
Photo: Amir Hamzagić/Nova.rsTaking things out of the Faculty of Philology building
A few days later, the dean Faculty of Philology in Belgrade Iva Draškić Vićanović, she changed the locks on that higher education institution, preventing entry for students, but also for the faculty of the Faculty of Biology and Geography, who share this building.
The dean stated that it took four days to put the faculty building in order because of the chaos created by the students.
Professors of the Faculty of Biology also spoke out on the occasion, condemning the move of Dean Draškić Vićanović.
As they stated in the announcement, from the first day of the blockades, they testify to the very responsible behavior of students towards common property, joint actions of cleaning and washing the space.
Photo: Screenshot/Instagram/blokada.bioloskiStatement by the professor of the Faculty of Biology after the building was locked
The dean decided to expel the students because of the entrance exam.
The case of protests and Ćaciland
Photo: TimeA scene from "Ćaciland", March 2025.
Anyone who has been to at least once protest of students in the blockade and stayed there until the end, can confirm that the students, after the whole day's activities, stayed at the end of the day to clean up the trash that remained after the protest.
That just didn't happen in Belgrade March 15 i June 28. In both cases, the students declared an end to their protest before the civil protest ended and before chaos erupted in the streets.
On the other hand, alongside the preparations for the March 15 protest, the so-called "students who want to study"they occupied" Pioneer Park.
Two days after the protest on March 15, it seemed that their rally was ending, and the Vremena team visited it and found piles of garbage, overturned tents, scattered chairs.
Garbage was then taken away by the employees of the Public Utility Company of Belgrade and the park was partly put in order.
A similar scene remained on the streets in the center of Belgrade and behind the crowd after the meeting of the Movement for the People in April of this year.
Even then, PUC employees had jobs.
