The public service did not send any team to report from the student station cycling tours to Strasbourg, Viktor Djordgioski, a student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, said in "Impression of the Week" on TV Nova S.
"RTS did not send any team to report, although a large part of Serbia was interested in following what was happening on our way. But they asked the students, our media teams who followed us, to prepare the material and send it to them. Our colleague regularly did it and sent it to them. And they sign their cameramen for it and it stayed that way until she complained and threatened to sue. Only then did they sign as the author Students in lockdown. Not only are they not doing their job, but they are breaking all the norms, they have become really reckless," he says.
Student cyclists pedaled to Strasbourg because there is no adequate body in Serbia that can monitor the work of the Public Service, said Bogdan Jelača, a student at the Faculty of Medicine.
"We said that the blockade will last until the contests for the composition of REM are announced. I think that enough people are aware of what is happening and that they follow how someone speaks and talks about us. It shouldn't look like that in the public and the media," explains Jelača.
The students in the blockade and the citizens who support them continued to block the Radio Television of Serbia buildings in Takovska Street and Košutnjak. RTS was forced to adjust the program schedule due to the difficult working circumstances caused by the blockade, and a criminal complaint was filed with the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade against an NGO and the response of international institutions was requested.
"We will stand by our professors and rectors"
Two weeks after the minister and senior SNS official Darko Glišić demanded the arrest of BU rector Vladan Đokić, he was invited to an informative interview. Asked whether such events lead them to despair, they said in the show:
"The blockades were started by the students and the students are leading this struggle. At most faculties, the deans and rectors supported us, and that's a big thing, it gives us a wind at our backs. However, all the blockades were started by the students, and all the accusations that the deans and rectors are leading us are lies. That's not true," said Viktor Djordgioski.
He also pointed out that this government seems to represent a punitive expedition for everything that is happening. As he said, the real challenge is to create a worse government than the previous one, which is not a job for everyone. Also, he doubts that Prime Minister Đuro Macut, as someone who supports SNS, is capable of fulfilling student demands and changing the situation in the country.
"We will stand by our professors and rectors. Just as they supported us, we will also support them. One cannot exist without the other - there is no professor without a student, and no student without a professor," added Sofija Janković, a student at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade.