On the lawn next to the city highway and gas station, in the so-called "Zrenjanin çacilendu"there are always around a hundred people who sit under tents and umbrellas and drink coffee. They are mostly older people, while on the other side students and assemblies of citizens who organized 24-hour shifts.
This is the situation in Zrenjanin described by Senka Jankov, professor of sociology at the Zrenjanin High School.
She explained to "Vreme" that the "Zrenjanin ćaciland" got its name because the activists ruling parties pitched a large, extended tent, such as can be seen in the "original ćaciland" in Belgrade.
She added that several umbrellas were placed next to that tent and several checkpoints were erected.
"There are mostly pensioners there, and they were briefly visited by the leaders of Zrenjanin, the mayor and the president of the city assembly. There are a lot of police, but apart from shouting and name-calling, there were no serious conflicts. As could be seen on TV N1, a journalist from that television tried to talk to them, but they refused, which is a common behavior in Čatsiland," Jankov said.
She stated that in "Zrenjanin ćaciland" there are many people from the surrounding villages, and that some introduced themselves, and some were recognized by citizens. She could not confirm whether some of the people in "Zrenjanin ćaciland" were brought to that city from some other parts of Serbia.
"It doesn't seem that they were brought from the outside, there are about a hundred of them, that's not such a number that one could think that they came from somewhere other than the vicinity of Zrenjanin, but I wouldn't be surprised if that happens in the future. Previously, when there were blockades in Zrenjanin, people were brought from the outside," Jankov said.
"Majority, decent and cultured Zrenjanin"
Previously, the local portal Zrenjaninski.com announced that the City Committee of the Serbian Progressive Party stated that the citizens of Zrenjanin, who have been at the Avala roundabout for days, are providing strong support to their activists.
Zrenjanin's progressives claim that the people under that tent represent "the majority, decent and cultured Zrenjanin".
However, obscene and uncultured comments were made to the N1 reporter, and many people hid from the TV's camera.
"You ask why we are here. I am here because of my president. I am Branislav Lazić, I came from Botoš. I came from Serbia, I am one of the founders of the Serbian Guard. I came to support the honorable president and I would like someone to explain to me, since I enjoy watching your television, what do you think about the statement of Škrelja in the Parliament when he said that our Serbs have bloody hands. I came to explain that we Serbs do not have bloody hands, that the country is developing, that our president has a vision," he said. is a man who introduced himself as Branislav Lazić, the 20-year-old president of the Botoš community.
Across the street there are citizens with banners "Students win" and the inscription "Horns for students", a call to which, according to N1 reporting, many drivers respond.
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