"The introduction of a state of emergency is one of the options, depending on what will happen on the streets on March 15." "Vučić is wishing for incidents," said Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, deputy of the Ecological Uprising, for "Vreme".
"Aleksandar Vučić he wishes that on March 15, the scenario seen on November 5 in Novi Sad would take place at the protest in Belgrade, that windows would be broken and oysters would fly in order to show that the desire to forcibly change the government was hidden behind everything. "Vučić changes his hair, but never his radical temper," the representative of the Ecological Uprising told Vreme Aleksandar Jovanovic Zuta commenting on the story of the President of Serbia that he expects the opposition to "organize great violence" and that all those who participate in it will be arrested.
"All those who participate in it will be arrested." Maybe we will need 15 minutes, maybe an hour, maybe two," said Vučić about the allegedly planned "great violence" on March 15, "D-Day", the "attempt" to seize power by force, which is being reported day and night by the regime's media.
Vučić also added that the state "will be able to behave like a state" and that "there is no philosophy."
As he sowed, so shall he reap
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta points out that whatever Vučić does "will not stop the rebellion of the people who rose up and will not suffer anymore".
"The introduction of a state of emergency is one of the options, depending on what will happen on the streets on March 15." "Vučić wants incidents, and that's why he crowded those children in the middle of Pionirski Park, because a man who wants to calm the situation, as Vučić claims he wants, would never bring ``students who want to learn'' near the angry people," says Jovanović.
And "as he sowed, so shall he reap."
March on Belgrade: From all sides, step by step until March 15
"Whatever he does, there is only one way out of this situation - to leave gracefully, and that is what is being demanded, his resignation, because Serbia cannot move forward nor will the people calm down as long as he is there," says Jovanović.
He notes that Vučić is comfortable with a situation in which there will be "serious incidents in which glass will break and oysters will fly, and where he will present it as the violence of those who do not want to suffer violence anymore, so that everything that has happened so far will be tainted."
"Everything that has happened in the past months is a pure river that flows from above from some peak and rolls and carries everything before it." We have not seen a single incident when it comes to students and all those people who roam Serbia up and down. When it comes to violence, we've seen students' heads being smashed with baseball bats and students being run over by cars, violence comes from bullies and let's not turn bullies into victims, and that's what Vučić will try to present," says Jovanović.
Vučić will bring his hooligans
He believes that Vučić will try to "bring his hooligans, start brutally smashing, throwing stones at shop windows or the Assembly, similar to what was seen on November 5 last year in Novi Sad".
"When it comes to announcements of arrests, most MPs have been detained or arrested at least once. Let them arrest me, I will not invoke immunity, I officially submitted a request to the Parliament of Serbia to remove my immunity two months ago, but there was no response to it," says Jovanović.
Asked about Vučić's statement that riots are being prepared on March 15, Professor Žarko Korać told N1 earlier that the police could do nothing against 100.000 people and recalled October 5.
"The police can maintain order and peace, but they can't against the people who don't disturb the order, but fight against corruption and bad government," Korać pointed out.
More than 40 professors of the Faculty of Law submitted a criminal complaint to the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against unknown members of the Gendarmerie due to the suspicion that on July 3, shortly after midnight, they violated several laws by using excessive force during an intervention in front of and in the area of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade
The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade filed an indictment against three persons responsible for the "Ivanović" Home for the Elderly and Adults in Barajevo, where 2025 people died in a fire in January 11.
Starović assessed that "the latest form of anti-Semitism that comes from the left has been recorded in the United States of America and has been imported to Serbia, where it can be seen through student and plenum movements."
The National Movement of Serbia invited representatives of the civil sector, opposition parties and students to sit down on Wednesday. But it seems that it will have to happen again without students
Students of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computing (VISHER) were thrown out of the faculty building, and their belongings remained locked inside. The entrance was closed, the locks were changed, and during the day the police detained citizens who had gathered in support.
Protests in Serbia no longer impose questions of "whether" and "if", they have become systemic events. Tolerance in society has turned into an insatiable need for normality, for the rule of law
Aleksandar Vučić is no longer able to restore balance in the rebellious society. This is best seen in the level of speech: none of his remarks go through anymore
If we are neutral while students are being imprisoned, girls and boys are being beaten for God's justice, democracy is being suppressed, dissenters are being dehumanized, corruption is continuing that kills and many other evil things are being done - then nothing
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