So how much longer - asks actress Anita Mančić, who will lead tomorrow's "March for the Fair".
She says that she felt physical pain in her chest area when she heard that the demolition of the Fair was planned. "Besides the fact that I am an architect and that I perfectly understand the technical, technological, architectural and urban, as well as the historical importance of the complex, a good part of me is among those halls." Every day I pass by the Fair and beautiful memories come flooding back: the crazy rides at the New Year's Fair, the picture of my dad buying me the fifth hamster in a row, and even the smell of the exposed wooden furniture in hall 3. I don't just want to remember the Fair and the Belgrade I'm in grown up, I want to live in it!"
"March for the Fair" is organized by "Go - Change" from 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. near Manjež Park.
The informal network of Belgrade activists, United Initiatives and Movements (ZIP), supported tomorrow's protest and announced that they "will not allow" the demolition of that building.
In the announcement, they warned that the Belgrade Fair complex "has already been robbed of a part of the parking lot and handed over to Belgrade on the water."
"All this is being done under the guise of some kind of new EXPO center and national stadium that they plan to build in the middle of the Surčin meadow, even though Belgrade also has a fair and two representative stadiums," the activists said.
They announced that they would "stand in front of the excavators" in order to prevent the demolition of the Belgrade Fair.
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