When on January 22, an unknown author wrote graffiti on entering Jovin's high school in Novi Sad told the students to go to school, he certainly had no idea that his message would go viral.
He probably didn't even realize the mistake he made by saying "to the children"to go to school."
The illiterate message of an unknown author entered the annals and the news student protests which have been going on since November 2024, and the term "boys" has become a metaphor for those who oppose the protests, "Students who want to learn" who are camping in Pionirski Park, which has since become "Chaciland", and government representatives often use it to create divisions between "us" and "them".
The president of Serbia used it Aleksandar Vučić another chance at it.
He is also "daddy"
On Student's Day, April 4, the president wore a white T-shirt with the words "I am Ćaci" written in large black Cyrillic letters.
"As you can see, I'm wearing a T-shirt that says 'I'm Ćaci too'. I'm not, those young guys and girls are much braver than me. I slept in a big, warm room, here in Sofia in a hotel, while they were under a tent, in the rain, in the wind and they're struggling every day and every night," said the president, who is currently at a summit in the capital of Bulgaria, alluding to the students camping in Pioneer Park in Belgrade.
To students who are close to him and often guest with him in the regime media.
In his message, the president also mentioned how Students 2.0 are being attacked physically and in every possible way, and that no one is talking about their incredible fight.
The "miraculous" fight of the katsiya
"And that struggle is miraculous. Those young people in Ćaciland do not ask for anything from anyone, except that they have and receive the right to learn. They do not hinder anyone in anything, they do not block anyone, they do not terrorize anyone," said Vučić, who persistently for months blames those he calls "blockaders" for Serbia's economic decline and "implementing terror" and calls them out for the moves they make in the fight against the authorities.
He said that it will go down in history because some young people had the courage to stand up to the "crowd", how they dared to say "yes", while the mob shouted "no".
"Maybe there are fewer of us, maybe you are attacking us, but we have our beliefs. And the strength of beliefs is always stronger and more powerful than the strength of the pack", said Vučić, alluding to mass gatherings of people dissatisfied with the system, those who are looking for a fairer state and responsibility.
"I put on a t-shirt with the inscription 'I am Ćaci too' not because I think I can compare myself to them, but to support them and say how much I admire them. To them and to the blockaders and to everyone else, happy Students' Day," said Vučić, while part of those he calls blockaders are traveling to Strasbourg to spread the news of what is happening in Serbia, which Aleksandar Vučić has turned into Ćaciland.
Ridiculing students and citizens
Again, the president tried to make fun of student blockades and protests. He once again tried to ridicule the struggle of the majority of students and citizens of Serbia who are demanding responsibility for the fall of the canopy of the railway station in Novi Sad in which 16 people died.
Whose side is he on, Vučić made a clear message with the T-shirt he chose to statefully congratulate the students on their day.
He also mentioned those others who, in his opinion, do not want to study. Those who seek responsibility, those who cross hundreds of kilometers across the country, those who ride bicycles to Strasbourg. They don't even need Vučić's congratulation.
They will also spend the Students' Day in blockades, on the streets and on bicycles.
The students of the Belgrade faculties in the blockade announced that they will mark the Students' Day, April 4, on the streets of Belgrade from 15 pm, remembering the struggle of Žarko Marinović and reacting to the violence they suffer.
Rector Vladan Đokić's congratulation
The Rector of the University in Belgrade Vladan Đokić, who for the representatives of the government "the face of evil" that needs to be extinguished, sent congratulations to the entire academic community on Student Day, with thanks for the personal efforts of individuals to preserve unity and defend the dignity of educated young people in Serbia.
"The University of Belgrade has been celebrating Students' Day for 70 years and remembers the sacrifice of an individual for the benefit of the student community," Đokić said in his congratulatory message.