Novi Sad cardiologist and professor Ilija Srdanović was invited to an informative interview on Thursday. Coincidentally or not, he has recently been targeted by "Informer", who calls him an "arrogant professor" who is "on the side of those who would like to see Serbia on its knees".
Cardiologist and university professor Ilija Srdanović was invited today (March 20) to interview at the police station u Novi Sad, announced the Novi Sad portal Autonomija.
Srdanović said that he would respond to the invitation for an interview.
He is employed at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases in Sremska Kamenica and at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad, writes FoNet.
Srdanović is a member of the academic network Slobodan University from Novi Sad and is active in supporting student protests.
Recently also on the target of "Informer"
Just a few days before Srdanović was called for an interview, the cardiologist found himself a target "Informer".
In the text published on March 16 on the website of this tabloid, it is stated that "arrogant professor Ilija Srdanović leads the strike committee at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad for the suspension of classes by professors", as well as that "by the way, he regularly gives speeches at student demonstrations".
"Informer" also writes that Srdanović is "on the side of those who would like to see Serbia on its knees" and that this doctor was removed from the post of director of the Cardiology Clinic in Kamenica "because he was arrogant".
State repression is growing.
Srdanović is the last in a series of people whom the police have invited for informative interviews in recent weeks.
Twitter user Marko Marjanović recently went through the same thing, and the same method has been used for months to intimidate activists and students in the blockade. In December, FON student Lazar Stojaković (22) was invited by the BIA for a "friendly conversation" due to his participation in the blockades of the faculty, while the mother of Novi Sad student Vuk Stojić was visited at her workplace in the same month by agents of the Security and Information Agency.
However, the service does not stop at informative conversations. Apart from calls for interviews, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of arrests in the past period. Just a few days ago, Željko Latas, a member of the "Go-Change" movement, was detained for an alleged attack on student Miloš Pavlović in Pionirski Park. Despite the fact that the videos showed the opposite - that is, that Latas was the one who was the target of the attack by Pavlović and several other young men.
A little earlier, the police arrested the founders of the "United People of Serbia" movement, Srđan Žunić, and the "Ćale, ovo je za tebe" movement, Petar Đurić, as stated, "for inciting citizens to violence and threatening to lynch public office holders."
And the arrests are widely announced by the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, who even before the big protest on March 15 announced that "great violence" would break out in Belgrade that day, and that all those who participated in it would be arrested.
"Great violence", however, did not occur, since the students, at the first indication of possible incidents, took off their police vests and declared the end of the student protest.
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