The city committee of the Serbian Progressive Party of Požarevac with its coalition partners "completely denies the disinformation" that appeared in certain media "with fabricated allegations that we are 'sending provocateurs' among students and that we 'carried out a mafia attack on the family of the director of the Požarevac High School'."
"We can only add that the real provocateurs are the authors of such fabrications," reads the announcement of Pozarevac SNS.
"Individual media" in this case are Pozarevac radio Boom 93 as well as "Vreme", which first reported about the pressures on the director of the Požarevac High School, Danijela Žukovski.
As we wrote, she is being threatened with dismissal because she supported student protests with the teaching staff.
Her husband, an electrical engineer at the Kostola Thermal Power Plant, was transferred to the position of trainee and his salary was reduced, which some "Vremena" sources assessed as "mafia methods".
And he doesn't even have a party card.
"One of the fabrications is that the family of the headmistress of the Požarevac high school is under attack because she is not a member of any of the ruling political parties," the progressives now add, claiming that SNS does not insist that the directors be members of the parties, and that results are the most important.
In the announcement, there is not even a word about why Žukovski is the only such director in the city - without a party card.
The announcement further states that the Pozarevac committee supports President Vučić, who said that all the students' demands have been met, that they do not dispute the right to protest, but condemn violence and the "abuse of minors for the purpose of political struggle".
Petrović: Those are the facts.
Goran Petrović, vice-president of the Freedom and Justice Party and MP from Požarevac, responded to the announcement of the progressives.
He stated that the pressure on the high school principal "by sending an inspection and moving her husband to a lower position" was not invented.
"These are the facts that the citizens of Požarevac have been talking about for days and the media have written about." You started the students and pupils with your misdeeds, leaving them the choice to leave the country or to be followers of your party, to protest, put up posters and work for a certain period of time," said Petrović.
