A noose for company

We thought we had the whole case in front of our eyes, but it turned out that it was just the beginning of a series of events in which it is difficult to distinguish who is (all) the victim and whose.

Three students of the Technical School in Trstenik were late for class. Upon entering the classroom, one of the three sat on the radiator behind the English teacher. The other was recording everything with his phone. The student from the radiator, after the teacher warned him not to stand behind her, dodges her chair. The woman falls, then gets up, and that's where the video ends. The students upload it to Tiktok and the video ends up in the media very quickly.

The video is scary: you can see that the teacher is very scared, while the students, mostly seventeen-year-olds, are laughing. Soon, the school, the educational inspection, the Ministry of Education are announced... Two students are punished by being expelled from school. Some trade unions of educational workers are asking to get the status of official persons, the public is furious and demanding blood, so the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Kruševac sends a request to the court to initiate preliminary proceedings against two minors due to an incident at school and that for "the crime of abuse and torture, committed in co-perpetrator, from Article 137 paragraph 1 in connection with Article 33 of the Criminal Code".

All this happens in the first half of November.

Then they leave. protests by educators under the name "Stop violence in schools" in 47 cities and municipalities in Serbia.

That at the moment when the journalist of the newspaper "Danas" was conducting an interview with the professor, the news would arrive that the student who slipped her chair had tried to commit suicide by hanging himself...

Read on full text by Jovana Gligorijević in the weekly "Vreme" from Thursday (December 8)