"Watch where you stand, there is glass!", a mother shouts to her children who run past the broken rooms Serbian Progressive Party in Cvijićeva street. It's Tuesday, August 19, it's the night before a group of demonstrators demolished the shop window of the premises of the progressives.
SNS in Cvijićeva has two rooms, separated by a beauty salon. A few days ago, the windows of the first window were broken, while on Monday evening destroyed and the other.
None of the broken shop windows have been adequately repaired - nylon was stretched behind the broken glass so that curious passers-by could not see the condition of the inside of the premises. And there are curious citizens as well. Almost everyone who came across this road stopped in front of one of the broken shop windows. Some took photos and others tried to peek behind the nylons.
Photo: TimeGlass is also sticking out of the shop window.
In front of the shop window there is scattered glass, which reaches all the way to the hedge on the other side of the sidewalk. At one point, two uniformed police officers appear, but they do not stay in front of the SNS premises.
So it seems that the premises of the SNS Palilula Municipal Board were demolished completely without supervision. However, nearby, placed in the shade of a row of trees and hidden from view from the street by a hedge, is a red and black scooter parked. The man on the scooter has a perfect view of the premises of the progressives and of the citizens who stop in front of them curiously. Maybe it's a member of the BIA or a plainclothes policeman, maybe a member of the party who is there on assignment, and maybe, in the end, an ordinary citizen who stopped there to rest.
Still, in the half hour we were in the vicinity, he didn't move a single bit.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić knows best how dangerous glass is that nobody has removed yet.
Photo: TimeScattered glass on the sidewalk
How dangerous is glass?
Since the demonstrators broke the windows on the premises of the Serbian Progressive Party on Monday evening, they were chased away by the Gendarmerie. Soon, Aleksandar Vučić appeared at the same place, and gave a motivational speech to his supporters, which boils down to the fact that he will pursue the "blockade-terrorists" who are carrying out the "colored revolution" even faster and harder, which he says he has defeated month after month.
He became the president of Serbia and became a hit on social networks because of the video in which, despite the security guard's warning, he grabs broken glass, which further breaks under his hands.
"It looks like I cut myself, don't give me anything, I have a handkerchief, no big deal," said Vučić afterwards, showing the bloody back of his hand.
There is also something poetic, because the president of all citizens in his speeches regularly likes to emphasize how he will fight for Serbia "until the last drop of blood".
As he left Cvijićeva, Vučić was greeted by cheers from the gathered supporters, but also by whistles and curses from the surrounding buildings.
