The authorities claim that violence is being prepared on Vidovdan, and the students say that they are not calling for it. The protest has been announced from 18:21 to XNUMX:XNUMX, but the question remains what will happen after XNUMX:XNUMX
What's coming up in Belgrade? June 28? If you ask students, you probably won't get an answer.
And if you ask the government? They have been announcing violence and intrusion into institutions for days, and according to those allegations as if they were imprisoning citizens for allegedly planning to "overthrow the constitutional order".
More arrests have been announced, and police director Dragan Vasiljeviฤ says that "the police are ready" and that "they will not allow disruption of public order and peace, attempts to break into state institutions and endanger the safety of any citizen of Serbia."
"The police will react to any form of violence, we will not allow violence, all those who gather in any place must respect the law, we have registered, but 95 percent or more unregistered public gatherings. This tomorrow was not reported in accordance with the law either, that's why those who participate in the start are violating regulations," Vasiljeviฤ told RTS.
What will happen after nine?
Although a new student protest is scheduled for Saturday (June 28) at 18 p.m. on Trg Slavija, not much is still known about him. For now, it is only known that the student protest will last from 18:21 to XNUMX:XNUMX.
However, does this mean that, when the clock strikes the end of the protest, the students will call on the citizens to go home peacefully, as was the case at the previous large protest in Belgrade on March 15?
The answer to that question comes only in hints for now.
"What will happen after nine, we will find out after nine," said a student of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade on Thursday on N1 television.
The students are gave the government an ultimatum - or until June 28 at 21 p.m., call for elections and dissolve the tent settlement in Pionirski Park better known as "ฤaciland" or face civil disobedience. Without specifying what it would mean.
"We are not responsible for what will happen after nine. Students will never call for violence," said the mentioned student, but he also said that this is no longer just a question for students. "Who are we to stop the will of the people to fight for a democratic and legitimate democratic system?"
Different interpretations
This statement caused divided reactions on social networks - some accused the students of not wanting to take responsibility for their own protest, while others said that the students cannot take this fight alone.
People are most interested in what will happen at nine o'clock. So far, there are several interpretations.
First, the student protest ends at 21 p.m., and students and citizens go home.
Second, students call on citizens to block the city center until extraordinary parliamentary elections are called.
The third - and what supporters of the government are talking about the most - is an intrusion into institutions, i.e. Pionirski Park, which could cause a more serious conflict between citizens and the police.
For now, all three scenarios are only speculations that are heard most often among citizens. It is possible that something completely different is being prepared on Saturday after nine o'clock, and it should not be ruled out that the final outcome of the event may be determined by the reaction of the authorities to the protest.
In other words, the question is how repressive the government will act towards the citizens on Saturday. According to announcements by officials, it seems that the police are ready to react to even the slightest signs of disobedience.
What are the expectations?
The opposition side of the public, probably taught by the experience of March 28, approaches the protest on June 15 with caution.
There are almost no great expectations, such as that October 29 will finally dawn on June 6, or that Serbian President Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ will succumb to pressure and call for early elections.
Pro-regime tabloids use this cautiousness as convenient material to write in advance about the "debacle" of the Vidovdan protest, and the officials of the ruling party, led by the president, have been spinning the same story for days.
Philosopher Vladimir Milutinoviฤ, who will be at the protest himself, does not expect any drama or decision day.
"I only expect that it will show that the student-citizen movement is growing," he told Deutsche Welle (DW).
This does not mean, he specifies, that there will be more people than at the meeting on March 15. According to the estimate of the Archives of Public Meetings, around 325.000 people gathered in Belgrade at that time. At the end of June, when many are already on vacation, a repetition of such a mass is probably not realistic.
"But the number of people should show that we are all here in the same political positions we were in in March," continues Milutinoviฤ.
"So, on Vidovdan, you should feel how the wind of change, raised by the students of Serbia, is already blowing through all the open windows. That the political weather will lighten up and that you can clearly see who is who and who is where," concludes Milutinoviฤ.
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