Broken heads, stories of stabbings, swollen eyes from tear gas, but also a ban on filming even for journalists - all this was found by the reporter of "Vremena" on the streets of Belgrade, after the student protest ended.
Students took off their police vests, darkness fell in Belgrade, and unknown people pulled T-shirts, helmets and masks over their faces. They started, they say, in civil disobedience.
Who was on the street?
"We are standing here and waiting for the police to let us go," one of those gathered near the Church of St. Mark, where people are standing in front of the police cordon, told "Vreme". The young man is wearing a mask.
"The idea is to move that Xaciland more. We are staying as long as they are, this has to end", he adds.
Other men also wear t-shirts over their faces en masse. When asked why they hid their faces, they say - someone because of the tear gas, rather than to hide their identity. However, when asked further questions, what are their plans, who are they hiding from - the regime or other media or the police, they say "we don't know, ask the students".
Nevertheless, the people behind these front lines of masked people seem civil. They hope, they say, that the police will lower their shields and let them into Ćaciland, to break it up.
The "Vremena" reporter talked to groups of people, trying to determine what they were thinking. However, it is not very clear to those gathered what the idea of this subsequent gathering is, except to persevere.
"They told you that they want to enter Jaciland? Well, it's not a bad idea, but we are not really people ready for force. And who are these people in front - we don't know. We don't even know if they are ours," says one gentleman.
His wife replies that they are definitely ready to stay, while the younger couple adds to "Vreme" that "they will stay too, they can stay all night". Nationalist messages are broadcast, "Aco Shiptar" and "you sold Kosovo" are heard.
Have some nerve, let us go.
There are also peaceful citizens in the team. Some of them are trying to talk to the police.
"People, I don't wish harm on anyone. Please lower your shields. Do you have families? How are you going to look in the mirror? Please, clean yourself. Come to us, come to us," a young man has been telling the police for ten minutes. "I have nothing, I have never fought in my life, I don't want to harm anyone."
They raise their hands en masse and continue their conversation with law enforcement. The police sometimes look them in the eye, and sometimes look away.
"Don't be near London at all"
Not everywhere is this calm. People coming from the direction of London are running and saying - don't come down at all. However, information arrives that the police are withdrawing from Resavska.
"What can I tell you, we'll stay no matter what," says one guy to "Vremen".
At the bottom of the Resavska you can hear shouts, cannon shots. One guy is mentioned to be injured. In an instant, the crowd starts running and everyone shouts - turn right! Turns out, it's nothing, just a knocked down container. Everyone is shouting that a guy has been stabbed in the street, down below Ćaciland.
Hello, there is no recording.
Nevertheless, the police began to encroach on both sides of the street. Their idea is to suppress the people and surround them completely. Many people fled to the entrances in order not to be chased out of this street, but the Gendarmerie stormed the entrance.
"Everyone get out," they shouted. "Come on, come on, you can't be behind us."
They threw the people out and sent them up to the top of the street in order to disperse them all. They also kicked out the "Vremena" reporter and forbade filming.
"I don't care if you are the media, there is no filming," said the plainclothes policeman.
Smashed heads
It's chaos in London. Broken bottles, but also heads. The guy stands while the police handcuff him and the EMS bandages his head. There are police cordons around, and clothes, shoes, plastics, all kinds of garbage, and even potatoes are thrown next to them.
"Let's go home, there's no point in fighting with the cops," says one guy.
Further on, Kralja Milan Street is ominously dark. A group of people can only be seen from Ćaciland, while from there the natives plow to the ground. It is precisely from Pionirski Park that the people gathered from the "literary evening" of the progressives come out. They walk with their heads down, they are tired.
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