Small mischief with big consequences.
This is how the actions of the regime could be explained, which every day is doing its best to make life miserable for citizens who support the protests in Serbia.
They are ready to enter every pore of society and to suppress every step towards the independence of institutions at the very beginning. Police, courts, prosecutors' offices, school principals they themselves participate in small mischiefs that the regime's propagandists interpret as "justified punishments for blockaders-terrorists", and which for the people they mistreat often mean endangering their existence.
It's as if in state institutions, in addition to bots, there is a new job - designing small monstrosities for each individual case.
Left light and upper wiper
Just because he supports student protests and transported students around Serbia for free, Milomir Jaćimović's business is one step closer to destruction every day, and this man out of desperation he even tried suicide.
His bullying is devotedly worked on. It's Jacimovic detained on Friday, November 7 in Žablje for disturbing public order and peace, after he blocked the approach to the Municipality building with a bus from his fleet and made noise as a sign of protest because the police would not return the confiscated buses to him. This is not the first time he has been arrested, and his minor son was also in prison this summer.
The police have now come up with a new plot - they seized another bus from him, due to an alleged technical defect - a defective left light and upper wiper, while on the same day, the minibus he used to transport passengers to the protest in Belgrade was confiscated. Before that, unknown assailants damaged his buses, broke their windows and punctured their tires, usually after dark. In the second phase of pressure, Jaćimović cannot go out on the road without the police confiscating his vehicle, removing the license plates or writing a ticket.
In the end, he went on a hunger strike.
How many more hours in prison?
In the service of petty mischief, it was also illegal keeping Vladimir Shtimac in custody. He was detained for up to 48 hours. However, ruling on his defense counsel's appeal against that decision, the judge accepted the appeal and revoked the detention decision. Although it was expected that Štimac would be released, that did not happen.
In any normal state, the judgment of any court is binding, but in the case of Shtimac it was not, instead the police issued a new decision on police detention, although there is no legal possibility for this.
Termination when all job vacancies expire
An example of the regime's employees, who sit at work and think how they can humiliate the protesting people as much as possible, are the dismissals of teachers who are not employed permanently in schools, and who participated in class blockades.
More than 200 teachers across Serbia, who were employed on a temporary basis, were dismissed before the very beginning of the new school year. Since those who supported the students were dismissed as a rule, the state figured out how to give them additional trouble - so that they wouldn't find a new job easily. They were dismissed only at the end of August, seven days after the list of vacancies was closed for this school year. If they had been fired earlier, the teachers would have found a new job without any problems because there is a large deficit of teachers in Serbia. Yet they did it on purpose after months of luring people over the summer and promising that their jobs were safe.
Also, since many substitute teachers were on strike, a large number still managed to find a job at another school later, part-time or in a remote location. This was just a matchmaking-caustic way for the state to break up the collectives that were united in favor of the strike.
The list of those small abominations, which mean life to people, because they ensure their existence, is beyond comprehension in education. From changing the law according to which university professors can only devote 20 percent of their time to research, through threats to teachers whose children go to the same school, to deliberate attempts to create discord between professors and students.
Breaking and closing
Farmers who protested in September also suffered. The police arrested them., after several people invaded their protest and provoked the crowd. The police registered them and removed them from the gathering, but then they returned and then a verbal conflict took place. The police intervened again and removed the provocateurs from the meeting. However, in the end, the Novi Sad police announced that the farmers were the ones who were arrested for violent behavior.
The list of mistreatment also includes countless burnings and smashing of cafes owned by owners who supported the protests. The owner of a bakery in Kragujevac, who fed students during the protests, was closed by the inspectorate for 270 dinars, because he did not issue a fiscal invoice for just that amount.
Sound harassment
One of the government's latest innovations is sound harassment - the increased playing of the war-mongering song "The mother went to look for her son" by Dijana Hrka, a woman who is fighting for justice with a hunger strike in front of the Serbian Parliament.
She lost her older son under the canopy.
