In front of the building of the Radio-television of Serbia, the police forcefully opened a passage through the student blockade to allow the employees to enter, while the gathered people chanted "Lower the shields". After the intervention, the police withdrew, and students and citizens continued to block RTS
Students and citizens are arriving in increasing numbers to the building of Radio and Television of Serbia. The blockade of RTS continues, and Takovska Street is closed to traffic.
Several cordons early this morning police appeared in front of RTS, whose entrances were blocked by students overnight. Pushing students and citizens, they made a passage for Public Service workers who entered the building, reports the reporter of "Vremena".
The plainclothes police commander who led the action addressed the students beforehand and said that the police did not want to lay hands on anyone, that they did not want to push or hurt anyone, that they did not want to use force, nor to legitimize anyone, but that they had to fulfill the task.
After the intervention, the police withdrew, and students and citizens continued to block RTS, after the blockade was breached and the Public Service could continue with regular broadcasts.
As the reporter of "Vremena" reports, around five hundred students and citizens found themselves sandwiched between the Gendarmerie and the Police Brigade at one point in Ilija Garašanina Street. The tense situation was overcome after the student orderlies and the commander of the Police Brigade agreed to let the Gendarmerie vehicles pass.
Students in the blockade called on citizens to gather in large numbers in front of the RTS building in Takovska Street via social networks.
The RTS team reporting from this gathering is also present.
Things were quite tense in Ilija Garašanina Street, and at the other entrances to the RTS building, there were several student security guards, and everything was peaceful there.
MUP: Injured policeman, citizens surrounded and blocked official vehicles
This morning around five o'clock in Takovska Street in front of the RTS building, while the police were introducing RTS workers to work safely, the gathered citizens who have been blocking the RTS building for several days surrounded and blocked the MUP official vehicles in an attempt to prevent the police officers from taking the vehicles out of that area, the MUP announced.
"Despite several warnings and orders from the police to allow the passage of official vehicles, the crowd refused to do so. The police did not use force at any moment, but instead tried to reach an agreement with the crowd by talking to them to step aside so that the police vehicles would leave the area. As despite this, the crowd did not clear the passage for official vehicles, the police, without using coercive means, applied the so-called pushing of the crowd to one side and the other in order to clear the passage for the vehicles," he states in the announcement.
"After that, the participants of the protest moved to new warnings and the police left the scene with their vehicles," the statement reads.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs also states that work is underway to determine the circumstances of this event and to inform the competent authorities in order to determine the possible responsibility of the participants of the gathering during the police blockade.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs points out that the police exclusively protect public order and peace, citizens and institutions and warns that in their actions they will implement measures and powers in accordance with the law, and that they once again "call on all citizens to refrain from all behavior that endangers other citizens and hinders the work of competent authorities and institutions, but to respect the law".
They add that the participants of the rally offered intense resistance, insulting the police officers, and that on that occasion one police officer suffered an ankle injury, after which the ambulance transported him to a health facility.
The third day of the blockade of the Public Service
The students in the blockade are blocking the RTS buildings in Takovska Street and Košutnjak for the third day.
The students blocking RTS as the reason for the blockade cited the fact that, as they claim, the public broadcasters "do not report truthfully" about the student protests in the blockade.
They also stated that the protest will last "until a new competition for REM is announced or until RTS is shut down."
Radio Television of Serbia asked the blocked students to end the blockade of public service facilities, stressing that blocking facilities and preventing public service employees from doing the work for which they are legally responsible represents unacceptable pressure.
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