20.21
Check out the photo gallery from today's counter-protests
20.13
Completed meetings in several cities
The gatherings of progressives have ended in Vranje, Požarevac, and Bor, and citizens are leaving in Pancevo as well.
20.09
"What are you going to ask me?"
The Informer team in Loznica did not realize that it was live in the program, so the interlocutor asked the reporter Branka Lazić in front of the cameras if she should make a statement, as well as what she would be asked.
Dragan J. Vučićević immediately apologized for the technical problems, as can be seen in the video that is spreading on social networks.
20.04
On Saturday in 80 cities
And the rally in Stara Pazova is over, reported the Informer reporter.
In the meantime, Dragan J. Vučićević says that this television has received an important message and that the citizens have said that they will gather in 18.30 cities on Saturday at 80:XNUMX.
The editor-in-chief of Informer also says that all these gatherings were reported, and that they were reported by the Center for Social Stability.
19.44
Two gatherings in Ruma
In Ruma, in front of the "Veljko Dugošević" elementary school, students and citizens gather to tell the authorities - either us or darkness. At the assembly, they will vote on what the protest will look like and whether they will go on a protest walk.
At the same time, a gathering of SNS supporters is taking place in Ruma, who have gathered in front of the headquarters of this party in Železnička Street.
As the citizens of Ruma state, these are not their fellow citizens. The citizens of Ruma claim that they saw those people getting out of several buses to attend the rally, reports N1 reporter.
19.36
In Bačka Topla, SNS supporters dispersed after half an hour
Several dozen citizens of Bačka Topola who gathered at the meeting against the blockades dispersed after half an hour, reports N1.
Bačka Topola is a municipality with close to 12.000 inhabitants. Among those gathered was the high-ranking SNS official Milan Janus, who was also seen during the attack on citizens in Vrbas on August 12.
19.26
Informer: Police estimates that more than 20.000 people gathered
The editor-in-chief of Informer, Dragan J. Vučićević, stated that the police estimates that more than 20.000 people gathered throughout Serbia tonight to protest against the blockades, and that "the counting is still not finished."
19.21
The same messages from all channels: We are ordinary people
The messages heard in the "Informer" program, as well as those seen on the pro-regime media portals, are the same - tonight, according to them, ordinary people, eager for peace and stability, took to the streets.
Videos are being played from rallies from cities all over Serbia, from where "ordinary citizens" say that they just want to peacefully express their opinion, without fear that someone will lynch them for it.
In almost every recording, the speakers explicitly point out that they are "ordinary, normal people".
19.15
DJV: "Today is Vidovdan"
The editor-in-chief of Informer, Dragan J. Vučićević, said that today is "Vidovday", and that a quiet, majority Serbia gathered in the streets today.
"People were freed from some irrational fear that was imposed on us at some point by blockaders-terrorists. People were not allowed to say what and how they thought. And this is only the beginning, only the beginning," said Vučićević.
18.59
"We want a normal life"
Supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party on social networks share photos and videos of today's gatherings with the hashtags: #SrbijaProtivBlokada, #ProtivBlokada and #GrađaniProtivBlokada
18.02
Progressive gatherings began
A gathering of SNS supporters began in front of the Municipality building in Pancevo, reports portal N1.
On the plateau in front of the Municipality, the gathering begins at 18.30:XNUMX p.m.
In the same city, a protest continues in front of the Basic Court, where citizens are waiting for the hearing of the arrested student of the Electrical Engineering Faculty, Andrej Tank, to end.
17.43
Students took over "hashtags" against blockades
In the announcement of the Polytechnic under blockade on the social network X, which they claim is a correspondence from the group chat of the SNS City Committee in Subotica, the progressives called on their supporters to publish posts on social networks tonight with hashtags calling for an end to the blockades: #NarodProtivBlokada, #GrađaniProtivBlokada, #ProtivBlokada.
However, these hashtags were taken over by students, and they invited citizens to do the same.
Currently, on social networks, students and citizens publish posts with hashtags used by SNS, in which there are disputed statements by government representatives, examples of corruption...
17.38
Blocked students: Ignore them
Students in the blockade called on citizens to ignore today's protest by regime supporters.
"They would play a game of provocation. They think we are naive. Let them go. Let them shoot with an empty gun," the Blockade Students wrote in a post on their Instagram profile.
"Commit yourself tonight and save your energy, we'll call you," they added.
17.24
Choruses called on citizens to ignore the counter-protest
Civic assemblies called on citizens to ignore the SNS gatherings announced in several cities today, and to "stay away from suspicious persons and not fall into a trap."
"The voices are calling - ignore SNS gatherings. They want to cause riots, conflicts, for someone to be hurt, to say that we are bullies," according to a post on several Instagram profiles.
It is also added that "a lot of money has been given for today's gatherings and therefore they should be a shot in the arm", reports FoNet.
17.17
Informer and other tabloids: Citizen's meeting
Although the call for a counter-protest against the blockades was mainly distributed through the orders of the supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party, as well as the official orders of the municipal and city committees of this party, Informer and other regime tabloids write that it is a "citizen's meeting".
"Citizens of Serbia are gathering today in exactly 50 places against the blockades," writes Informer.
And the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said earlier today that tonight's rallies are not organized by SNS, but that a large number of supporters of that party will be present at them.
Students in the blockade of the Polytechnic Academy of Vocational Studies published on the social network X a correspondence that they claim comes from the group chat of the SNS City Committee in Subotica, in which, among other things, it is written that tonight's gatherings should not have any "party connotation".
"No party connotation, no talk of party activists, only citizens against blockades, a people fed up with terror," one of the messages states.
17.04
SNS called for a protest: "They are attacking my house"
The Serbian Progressive Party published a video on social networks calling on citizens to fight against blockades, and this call was among the first to be broadcast by progressives from Požarevac, which is about It already said "Time".
Similar calls for rallies in the same period were also sent from other cities, including Bečej, Vranje and Leskovac, and some media reports that the progressives will gather in 50 places, 44 local self-government units in Vojvodina, as well as in 6 cities in central Serbia.
The tabloids write that the gatherings will be peaceful and dignified and that citizens will only seek a normal life without hatred, violence and harassment.
