Photo: Printscreen/Youtube/TV HappyFour days had passed since the mass murder in "Ribnikar" and three days since the massacre near Mladenovac, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić barely mentioned it in "Cirilica" on TV Happy on Monday evening. All accusations and boasting, not a word of condolence, empathy, mourning, sadness, pain. Nor did host Milomir Marić ask him anything about it
The President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vučić, spoke about everything on Monday evening spoke in "Cyrillic" on TV Happy, except about mourning. He did not show an iota of empathy for the dead and living victims of mass murders in the elementary school "Vladislav Ribnikar" in Belgrade and in the villages near Mladenovac.
According to the established matrix, he lashed out at the tycoon media, "pathological" white-world and domestic "liars", talked about his stubbornness, about his incredible courage, about the fact that he built more roads and railways than "all others combined from 1945 to today" , even Clint Eastwood got around to quoting.
Only in almost two hours of Cyrillic speaking, he almost did not speak of the murdered children, of the murdered young people, of those they leave behind. He didn't say anything about sadness, the pain of mourning, empathy, compassion, tears.
He did not explain why, as the President of the Republic, or simply as a man, he did not go to "Ribnikar" to lay a wreath and sign the book of mourning, why he did not go to pay his respects at the crime scenes near Mladenovac.
Nor did the Cyrillic presenter Milomir Marić ask him anything about it.
And Vučić asked him, Milomir, if he knew why he, Vučić, was the biggest target in the region. Even Milomir did not know the answer to that question, so Vučić had to answer himself: because he works well for Serbia, and internal and external enemies want to collapse Serbia because it is so successful under his leadership...
And so two hours in that style: eulogies, boasting, highlights of crazy courage, of Vučić, not Milomir, announcement of some major changes within the regime, in principle he, Vučić, honest, but there are all kinds of them, slogan after slogan, three days after the massacre in Mladenovac and four days since the murder of the thirteen- and fourteen-year-old children and Dragan Vlahović in "Ribnikar".
The president of the state boasted that he knew all the victims' surnames, but he did not recite them, as he usually does with geographical toponyms.
You mentioned Milomir in the two-hour Cyrillic speaking and "little K" (Milomir pronounced the name of a minor child), and Vučić continued with "monster killer", but nothing, absolutely nothing about the tears that citizens shed in front of the wailing wall in the streets of Svetozar Marković and Kralj Milutina. The President of Serbia would not even be able to talk about it because he did not set foot there after the murders, and even if Milomir did, he is silent about it.
It is pointless in the days of (non-state) mourning to recount in detail the conversation about the "crazy courage of Vučić" and his wisdom, about whether or not he will and what kind of elections there will be, according to the established pattern of all his television appearances.
It should be said that in the midst of glorifying the Speaker and ignoring almost everyone else, except for Ana Brnabić, a report was released that went on and on and on and on, as the crowning proof that the opposition is responsible for the mass murders last Wednesday and Thursday, the left-green Radomir Lazović there highlighted as one of the main inspirers of violence in the country.
The president announced the people who were last night protested against violence in several cities in Serbia with a "mob", he estimated that there were 6000 of them in Belgrade, but everything he said, he actually said countless times and it doesn't matter.
What is important is what he didn't say, what he didn't talk about: about the grief that afflicted so many citizens of this country, about sadness, tears and pain. In no way did he show that he understood what happened and why what happened affected so many people. The President of the Republic visited "Ćirilica" as if nothing special had happened.
He seemed composed this time, so the question arises whether his marketing experts judged that he should not delve too much into the tragedy that befell the country, that the violent, mass death of children and young people essentially only caused a strong and permanent feelings of shock and pain; that a smaller number of voters reproached him for not going to the crime scenes to bow before the victims.
And if that is so, and if it is true, it is not correct.
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