At the end of August, in the vicinity of Kosančić's wreath in Belgrade, Maria (real name known to Kompas editorial staff) was intercepted by a Škoda Octavija car. A man got out of a gray car without license plates, put a hood over her face and dragged him into the car. Not long after, she ended up in a tent settlement of sympathizers of the President of Serbia, better known as Chaciland where, as she claims, masked men kicked, slapped, trampled and insulted her.
In conversation for Compass, a girl who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons and was named as Maria, describes the harassment and violence that followed days after she was taken into custody by the police following the August 18 protest in Belgrade.
That protest ended with riots in Cvijićeva Street in Belgrade, in front of the headquarters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Marija was among those detained and was ordered to be detained. During detention, she stayed in the Stari Grad and Majke Jevrosima police stations and was taken to the Military Medical Academy (MMA) for a toxicological examination.
The police confiscated her phone, which she returned after some time. She was assigned an ex officio lawyer who advised her to plead guilty, which later the lawyers of non-governmental organizations managed to change into a denial of guilt for the act of violent behavior at a public gathering. Maria is currently on probation.
The road to Chaciland
When, after returning from detention, she decided to go out to the city and meet her friend, she was forced into an unknown car and taken to Ćaciland.
"On the fourth or fifth day after I spent the rest of the days not sleeping and not eating, gathering myself mentally little by little, I went outside with my friend. We talked, and I announced on Instagram that I had no physical injuries, but that I was mentally crippled. That same day, in the evening, I was at the Leposava bar, saying goodbye to my friend," testified Maria.
"I waited to see that she was gone, that she was safe. I knew that anyone who came across me could be at risk. I forgot to protect myself. When she left, at one point I heard a car and heavy braking. I didn't look back. I thought she was some fool, maybe a taxi, until I heard footsteps and then I turned around. At that moment I was hooded, my head was bent. The only thing I saw when they hooded me was a gray Skoda "Octavia without plates. There was another man in the back seat. They threw me in the car, they covered my face."
As they drove, she counted the minutes to herself. The ride took 10 to 15 minutes. She had no idea where she was. When they took her out of the car and "threw her on the ground, like a bag of flour or cement", she felt a huge pain in her backside and spine. She tried to get up, but someone held her leg.
She started screaming. She was turning and tossing and turning and trying to squirm away. Then she realized that she was in Ćaciland. She saw a tent and a children's climbing frame. She was surrounded by three men. They were masked, but she remembered their eyes very well. The person who stood on her feet said that she was lucky because they knew her health condition.
"I was in shock. That's when I started to fear for my own life. After those words, no matter how many people were there, and I know there were many, they started kicking and slapping me, they said disgusting words to me. Disgusting words", says Maria.
She says that the "party", as she describes it, ended with one of the abusers saying: "We taught her well".
Thugs in Cacileland
Until now, there have been several cases of physical violence in and around the tent settlement in front of the Serbian Parliament. Claims that unknown men stationed in Ćaciland are harassing female students were also made public by Green-Left Front MP Biljana Đorđević.
"We know that this has been happening for months, that people with masks are taking girls to Ćaciland. No one has ever answered. Please, someone address the public, but not in such a way as to tell us that an investigation has been conducted and that the citizens, male and female students, are lying, because that's what you did after Nikolina Sinđelić," MP Đorđević said from the parliamentary speaker.
Also, a student of the Faculty of Computer Science was attacked on October 2nd while passing by the parliament. In the official note that N1 had access to, it is stated that the student stated that "several guys for no reason or reason came to him and asked him to stop recording on the phone. "I told them that I was not recording anything, and they surrounded me and when I started calling the police, they started hitting me on the head and body with their hands," the note reads. The police say that "the attackers have not been caught, because the incident is not clearly visible on the camera footage due to the darkness."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia did not respond to Kompas' questions about whether it has knowledge that masked men are abducting and slapping citizens in Ćaciland. The identity of the men seen in Ćaciland, as well as at numerous protests, attacking and attacking citizens, was investigated by KRIK.
In KRIK's online database, there are "persons convicted of murders, beatings, drug trafficking and persons closely connected with people from the underground, who supported the ruling party at the rallies it organized in the past year."
People with criminal records, as stated by KRIK, attacked students and citizens, kicked them, insulted them and threw chairs during various protests that have been held throughout Serbia since the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad.
In the case of the Kompas interlocutor, the violence followed the protest and the arrest during the protest.
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