The directive from the top was apparently: ignite that Fr "blockades, thugs"", get it through everything regime media, and then hide the news that any student protest happened and move on to the great honors that Aleksandar Vučić enjoys in China.
In order for this to be possible, it was necessary that the imposing and Gandhian peaceful rally "You and I, Slavija, the students win" was tarnished with scenes of attacks on the police and violence. And lo and behold, this is exactly what happened at several locations in the center of Belgrade when the protest was already over.
Against at least 100.000 people who responded to the student call, several dozen young people, mostly masked men attacked cordons of special police units out of pure peace, and then the Gendarmerie and the Police Brigade scattered around the city center to clean the streets of anti-regime elements.
The assessment of informer Dragan J. Vučićević: "Savage, crazy, violent group, for them violence is the beginning and the end. For them, everything is violence and hatred, and despite everything, President Vučić extends his hand to them and invites them to talk, because he cares about them too."
"Rampage of new proportions"
Photo: TimeFaculty of Agriculture meeting
"This is what rampage of a new scale looked like - even for them! The blockaders ravaged the streets of Belgrade, brutally attacked the police and citizens: They don't shy away from anything!", read, for example, the headline in "Kurir".
Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, who had disappeared after, appeared in front of the cameras murders in Senjak in which the former head of the Belgrade police, Veselin Milić, was involved, and spoke of "terrible blockade violence", at least that's how "Politika" reported it.
They - those who protested against the government of the progressive clan - were warned to be calm, said Dacic, "and then there was a drastic violation of public order and peace, that is, an attack on the police", and 23 people were detained.
"The police were doing their job, they didn't attack anyone. As I said, there were attacks with all means, including pyrotechnics, stones, bottles, even manholes were taken down to throw them at the police," Dacic said.
And that "many of the extremist participants were masked with scarves and T-shirts."
"Armed attack at the Main Post Office: 'Parking Service' workers beaten"
Photo: TimeThousands of citizens at Autokomanda
"A group of hooligans attacked the workers of the 'Parking Service'" in the center of Belgrade", it was written on the "Politike" portal.
It was described how two employees of the "Parking Service" were allegedly attacked on Saturday evening in Takovska Street, near the Main Post Office, while they were in an official vehicle which, according to the provided information, was parked there on the orders of the traffic police.
And then a group of ten attackers came, of course with "Students are winning" signs so that it would be clear to everyone who they belong to, approached the "Parking Service" vehicle and attacked the employees "who were sitting in the crane".
"A knife and a metal rod were used in the attack," reports "Politika".
First impression of the gathering on May 23 in Belgrade: Students really win
Brnabić: "Cannon strikes show what kind of Serbia they want"
The President of the National Assembly, Ana Brnabić, who visited the strange celebration in Ćaciland on Saturday, applied the mantra about "Ustasha blockaders", and said that "Croatian media showed whose interest the protests against Vučić are serving". Because the Croatian media reported on a peaceful gathering in which a huge number of people dissatisfied with the rule of Aleksandar Vučić participated.
Brnabić explained that "there was a noticeable huge support from the region at the meeting of the blockaders", above all from the Croatian media, which "speaks enough about who this meeting is good for".
"You have people who talk about freedom of the media, and who attack the media. They attack all the media they don't like, all the media whose editorial policy they don't like," said the President of the Assembly.
Vučić: "Violence of blockaders"
Photo: TimeCitizens filled Slavija
"After tonight's violence by the blockaders on the streets of Belgrade, I once again invite them to dialogue and I hope they will understand that those who do not think like them are people and citizens of Serbia," said Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in a video posted on the Instagram account "buducnostsrbijeav".
And he continued: "I wanted to congratulate our political opponents — not on the program and plan, because they didn't even present them organizationally, but on the fact that everything went peacefully. However, like every time before, they showed their violent nature and showed that they cannot tolerate political differences."
So he flew to China.
Vucevic: "Tonight's attack on the police is proof that the blockaders have no politics"
"The violence perpetrated by the blockaders continues as part of their tradition," said SNS formal president Miloš Vučević, also on Instagram.
And that the attack on the police that we saw on the streets of Belgrade is proof that they have no politics and that they are lying when they call for dialogue, that these are not any students and peaceful citizens, but "thugs, hooligans and that the events of last night are only proof that hatred is the only thing they can offer citizens".
When everything is added up, the conclusion is that Aleksandar Vučić is a politician who has been overtaken by time.
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