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Pensioners in Kosovska Mitrovica

"Are the students misled by truth and justice or by foreign mercenaries"

February 13, 2025, 07:43 am IN THE
Photo: Printskrin / Youtube / Kosovska Mitrovica
Public polemic of pensioners in Kosovska Mitrovica
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The square in Kosovska Mitrovica was a sort of podium for two older fellow citizens to express their conflicting views on the months-long student blockades across Serbia. They also touched on Serbia's policy towards Kosovo and gave advice to the President of Serbia

In Kosovska Mitrovica, another one was held skup in memory of the 15 victims of the accident that occurred when the canopy of the renovated railway station in Novi Sad fell. About 150 students and citizens remained silent for 15 minutes, thus paying tribute to the victims. And after that, the city square was a sort of podium for two older fellow citizens to express their conflicting views on the months-long student blockades across Serbia. They also touched on Serbia's policy towards Kosovo and gave advice to the President of Serbia, reports KoSSev.

Today's gathering, the fourth in total, is actually the third organized by the students of the University of Prishtina with the Temporary Headquarters in Kosovska Mitrovica, where they invited citizens to join them.

Apparently, the largest number of people of all generations gathered and joined today.

A student, Marijana Perović, originally from Kosovo, Zubin Potok, but a student from Belgrade, also joined.

At the moment when she was giving a statement to the media in which she supported Mitrovica students, and spoke about the students who are protesting all over Serbia, one of the two older fellow citizens entered into a discussion with her.

And then the debate began.

Students are managed by foreign mercenaries?

He asked her to "distance herself from students bribed and bribed by foreign mercenaries who want to overthrow Serbia."

"Keep away from them, and we will support all of you students in all your performances, demonstrations, and demands." But fence yourself off. We are for the future and perspective of the children, but not for the opposition which is bribed, wants to overthrow the state and which does not think well of us or you children".

Student Perović reminded him in front of the cameras that students have their own demands and that is the only thing they are looking for.

"Not for a moment did they say 'We are for this or that'." They are just asking for human demands to be met, which we should already have. It should be normal, you shouldn't write a request so that no one beats you on the street. In the same way, we don't need requests to ask the police not to beat us. We need to know who are the people responsible for the canopy in Novi Sad, who worked, who approved the works. That the students who asked for it be released, that those who attacked the students be punished..."

"Both you and I are the past of Serbia, this youth is the future, and they light our way. They give us hope. We don't have freedom, but at least they gave us hope back" - residents of Mitrovica from the promenade about students and their prostheses@BlokadaFon@studentblockade @sviublokade_fdu @blokadapravni... pic.twitter.com/ylwvhFo9eN

— KoSSev/Kosovo Sever portal (@KoSSevnews) February 12, 2025

An elderly fellow citizen claimed that all the students' demands had been fulfilled, again asking the students to distance themselves from what he said were foreign mercenaries, to which she told him "to get better information".

Although she excused herself from the discussion, he continued.

"The EU is behind the destruction of Serbia"

Speaking to the media, he stated that the students were misled, and when asked which media they were informed through, he listed many such as N1, Euronews, Tanjug... and accused them of being paid.

"They don't say anything, they report, you actually know what they say, it depends on who pays them, that's what they say." Most of the time, they talk in fanfare, depending on what the mercenary editors order them to do."

"What will the rector of Belgrade University do with the head of the EU in Serbia?" he asks publicly.

In order to confirm his views on students being led by foreign mercenaries, he cited the example of the stay of Vladan Đokić, rector of Belgrade University, with the European Union ambassador in Serbia.

"What is he looking for in Gioffre, he is the dean." Vučić called him for talks, he didn't want to, he went to Žiofre", he said, stating that there is no need to prove why - "a smart man knows that".

Because of everything, he believes that the EU is behind, as he said, the destruction of Serbia.

After the student protest on the square in Kosovska Mitrovica, Tomica told President Vučić#studentsinblockade#canopy #15minutesofsilence #serbiankosovo pic.twitter.com/Ok75q1YvBc

— KoSSev/Kosovo Sever portal (@KoSSevnews) February 12, 2025

"If you do not recognize your president, your assembly, your government, your people, you are supporting those who destroy. Well, this is what the EU did to us, they destroyed the state of Serbia, they occupied the territory of Kosovo, they are persecuting us and killing Palestinians like Israelis and Americans. It does the same to us, who? Well, Europe, its army, NATO and America".

Counter-answer: At least the students gave us hope back

The students are being misled, he believes, and at the moment when he wanted to express his views on what the students are looking for, another, also older fellow citizen, interrupted him:

"They are looking for justice and truth, not lies every day!" Don't lie to this people every day! Serbian officials took away our hope and freedom! Thank you, students, for at least giving us hope back, and freedom is a long way to freedom! And your professors, who are Pharisees, should be ashamed, they cannot teach you anything," said this fellow citizen.

Source: KoSSev

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