Choirs Novi Sad they organized a gathering in front of the Rectorate on Thursday (July 17) at 20 p.m., where in the "wheel of (un)luck", as they called it, they pulled out a new official under whose window they will come.
"Today's winner, listen to me the loser, we will draw in front of the Rectorate. To the lucky winner, listen to me the loser, we congratulate in advance and see you tonight. We don't want to waste it, we will bring coffee and sweets", said Novi Sad choirs and students in the blockade earlier on social networks.
The next announcement was dedicated by the President of the Provincial Government of Vojvodina to Maja Gojković, so it was assumed that she was the next host.
However, the "wheel of (un)luck" ruled that it should be the rector of the University of Novi Sad, Dejan Madić, so the gathered headed to Sonja Marinković Street.
The main reason for such protests under the windows of officials is the suspension of proceedings against four SNS activists, accused of beating students in January, who were pardoned at the beginning of July. the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
The toothpick in the intercom and other ingenuity "lost"
On Wednesday, July 16, citizens gathered in informal gatherings and students in the blockade organized a protest in front of the building where, according to their knowledge, Žarko Mićin lives, "the mayor who was not elected by the people."
He spoke about it the next day, saying on TV Pink that he hopes that such events will not happen again.
"Terrible scenes. We were scared, not so much me, as I was scared for my children and family. I hope this will never happen again. This is something that is not done and has never been done," said the mayor of Novi Sad, adding that he is always open to dialogue and will never run away and hide, N1 reported.
He also stated that the protesters in front of his front door took a mat with the word "Mićin" written on it, which they trampled in front of the building, as well as that they "stuck a toothpick" in the intercom, which rang non-stop.
The informer reported that the people of Novi Sad are carrying out "nightly terror on the Mićin family", and that "the lost are directing lasers at the apartment where minor children live".
The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad announced that due to the "threats" addressed to the mayor, it issued an order to the police "to identify the perpetrators of the criminal act of endangering security". The prosecution did not specify what kind of threats it was.
First, under Vučević's window
Citizens and students first gathered on Tuesday, July 15, in Branimir Ćosića Street, in front of the building where former mayor Miloš Vučević lived.
Mićin called that rally a "call for lynching", which was enough for the people of Novi Sad to visit him the next day in Branko Bajića Street.
The current mayor came to that position by replacing Milan Đurić, who resigned together with Miloš Vucevic, the Prime Minister of Serbia at that time, in January. It followed the attack of SNS activists on students in Novi Sad.
Preventive ban on gatherings in Belgrade
While a rally is expected in Novi Sad, the police stations of Stari grad and Savski venac have banned a duly registered civil protest of the Stari grad citizens' assembly in Belgrade, on Zeleni venc, scheduled for July 20 at 18 p.m., under the pretext of a possible disturbance of public order and peace, the assembly announced today.
The Assembly of the Old Town assessed that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with that decision, prevents the constitutionally guaranteed right of public assembly and thus introduces Serbia both de facto and de jure into a dictatorship.
While police forces use brutal force to beat and arrest peaceful demonstrators throughout Serbia, an unsanitary settlement has been expanding in front of the National Assembly for months, which is under the full protection of strong police forces, the statement said.
In that case, in Ćaciland, the police play the role of gatekeepers, orderlies, and garbage collectors, while identically registered gatherings of citizens' assemblies are prohibited, the Stari Grada assembly pointed out.
According to that assembly, banning a political gathering is a very rare precedent even in autocratic regimes.
Thus, as stated, the state of emergency in which Serbia has been in for the past months has been made official.
Police repression will not and cannot stop the aspirations of citizens to fight for the calling of extraordinary parliamentary elections and the fulfillment of student demands, said the Old Town assembly, adding that they will use all democratic means, with a special emphasis on civil disobedience, to fight for a fairer, more solidary and democratic society.
