They are killing us and while they are killing, they are yelling that someone wants to kill them. And in fact, for all of the above, they are perpetrators, principals, accomplices and helpers. And it is becoming clearer to more and more people. The propaganda bubble in which they have imprisoned people through their disgusting quasi-media is slowly bursting. And only that middle finger emerges from it, the bloody middle finger with which they will gouge out their own eyes
At the moment when this text was written (Tuesday afternoon), something that could be called a "peaceful conflict on the overpasses" was going on in Belgrade. Namely, two completely different groups are standing around the banners that have been hanging from the Belgrade overpasses since last night. In the night between Monday and Tuesday, regime supporters and thugs decided to respond to the red fist, which is a symbol of the protests caused by the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad and the death of 15 people. They took to the streets and used stencils to draw red hands with the middle finger raised. They developed the same banners on overpasses. So, since Tuesday morning, Belgrade has been "decorated" with huge banners with the middle finger.
The banners are guarded by some strange people, who admitted to Television N1, without any shame, that they are guarding them for the person who paid them. At the same time, in the same place, there were people who begged them to remove at least that middle finger, and to leave the other banner, which reads "The response of the Serbian people to the colored revolutions", to remain. The guy who asked for it simply said that it was rude.
Therefore, those who insist on presenting themselves as a decent Serbia decided to use the middle finger as their symbol. In addition to the transparencies, they also wrote graffiti, so in the night between Monday and Tuesday, there was an attack on the students of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Voždovac. A group of "hoodies" painted the building of this faculty when students and a guard came out to see what was happening. They managed to catch one guy with a hood and hold him until the police arrived, who were called, but did not respond. That "captured person" was later identified as Zvezdan Ljubinković, born in 2006, a guy who, somehow, at the age of 18, in September 2024, opened a company, no less than an LLC, to provide postal services.
The little entrepreneur flailed his legs while the student held him so he wouldn't run away and threatened to come back on Tuesday to do something to them all with his mother, but - he was arrested later that day. On social networks, the expression "friendly arrest" has become established, when the regime police arrest regime hooligans.
DO YOU REMEMBER THE BEGINNING?
Protests in Serbia have been happening since November 4 last year, and student blockades began on November 26. So, the student blockades last almost two months, and most probably think that the only reason for them is the fall of the canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad, when 15 people died, solely due to corrupt actions during the reconstruction of the building.
However, the direct reason for the student blockades that we are witnessing and which caused a wave of rebellion, the likes of which Serbia has not seen for a long time, is not the fall of the canopy, but direct violence against those who stood and paid tribute to the fallen every Friday at 11.52:XNUMX.
On November 22, FDU students joined the action "Stop, Serbia!" when there was an incident in the Boulevard of Arts near the college. Several drivers, whose cars were stopped by this action, pretended to be passers-by, and one even claimed to be a police officer, and attacked FDU student Nikola Terzić. He, in fact, ran over to remove the female colleagues whom these "random" tried to push out with their cars. And then they came out and attacked him. Nova.rs journalist Ana Marković was also punched in that conflict, but Nikola Terzić ended up in the Emergency Center. Later it turned out that Milija Koldžić, a member of the council of the Municipality of Novi Beograd, was among the attackers. Apart from him, thanks to social networks, the attackers were identified: Aleksandar Jokić, Dušan Kostić, Milena Aleksić and Ivan Stanišić, who very quickly, thanks to social networks, found out that they were all members of SNS.
Four days later, as a sign of protest that none of the attackers were taken into custody, FDU entered a blockade, and other faculties soon joined them. By the end of November, all universities in Serbia were on lockdown.
So, this protest did start due to the fall of the canopy, but the immediate reason for the culmination was the physical violence of the progressives against the citizens, which continued in the following days and is still ongoing.
IT KILLS THE GOD IN US
In fact, the government's violence against the citizens began immediately after the fall of the canopy. One of the first victims was Ilija Kostić (74), who pepper-sprayed a police officer during the opposition blockade of the prosecutor's office. As a result, he was arrested, but he was beaten so brutally by the police that one of his testicles was removed after leaving the station.
During the fifteen-minute blockade on December 6, a car drove into the crowd, and four musicians of the Belgrade Philharmonic were injured. As the public only recently found out, they are still recovering from their injuries, some of them will have to undergo physical therapy for a long time before they can even play again. However, as "Vreme" unofficially learns, there is also a misdemeanor charge against one of the four musicians because he hit the rearview mirror of a car that ran into him and his colleagues.
Driving cars into the crowd gained popularity when a SNS supporter in Požarevac pushed a retired sociology professor who was standing calmly at the roadblock on the hood. This happened on November 29, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, spoke very quickly and gave legitimacy to the trampling of citizens: "He says, someone jumped on his hood because the man wanted to pass. Well, he says, let's maybe arrest the man driving the car. How the hell do you arrest a man who hasn't broken the law? That man went his own way. Are you all conscious, right?"
Then, on January 13, unknown thugs attacked the students of the Faculty of Law on three occasions, injuring the girl they pushed down the stairs and the boy they hit. His jawbone is dislocated.
ATTEMPTED AGREED MURDER
As if all this wasn't terrible enough, as if the reason why all of Serbia is cooking is not death and violence, something unimaginable happened. On Rooseveltova Street, on Thursday, January 16, during the delivery of mail to victims of a falling canopy, a driver crashed into the crowd and hit a law student SP (20), who was standing on the sidewalk. He was arrested and charged with aggravated attempted murder. The regime's spin is based on the fact that he is an addict of various substances, with a record, but... The vehicle he was driving, the vehicle he tried to kill the SP, was registered to a certain citizen who, lo and behold, is the owner of a professional building management company. That is hardly possible in Serbia without ties to SNS.
What did the progressives try first? To spin how SP jumped on the car by herself, which is a completely idiotic strategy because there are videos from at least two angles, and besides, the car, considering the blockade, should not have been moving at all, especially not on the sidewalk. This assassination attempt was condemned promptly by the president and the prime minister, all pro-regime tabloids, and only a few fools of questionable usefulness did not delete from social networks the claim about a girl throwing herself on a moving car.
Suddenly, the regime reiterated and somewhat softened the rhetoric. But only temporarily, because we are dealing with people with weak impulse control, minimally existing moral principles and in great panic lest they accidentally lose their millions and billions of various currencies.
If they were smart, as they are not even capable of being, because their brains are darkened by laziness, they could have used the attempt to kill SP and calm the passions in society. But, just as their first reaction to the fall of the canopy was the stupidest imaginable claim that they had not reconstructed it, so this attack on the student and the attempt to twist it caused even greater anger from the citizens.
To make things even more abnormal, on the same day in Novi Sad, a lady with a bag of oranges claimed that she could not break through the blockade on foot, so she fell in a push with the guards and ended up in the Emergency Center. The footage also exists and it's really questionable how much the bouncers contributed to her downfall. First, the regime media tried to equate the case of the lady with the oranges and the attack on SP, which only angered people even more. The result: just a few hours after the SP was trampled in front of the Faculty of Law, there were thousands of students and citizens.
On Friday, January 17, there were at least 55.000 people at the student protest in front of Radio and Television of Serbia. Immediately before that protest, an elderly citizen pulled a knife on medical students in Novi Sad, and the MUP came out with a shameful announcement that the gentleman wanted to cut the banner. At a time when everyone is filming everything and every incident can be seen from multiple angles, it is not possible to lie. "Transparent" in question is a guy at least six feet tall, quite calm considering the fact that someone is pulling a knife on him. We expect the MUP to announce next time that the uncle wanted to peel an apple for the students, and they were scared when they saw the knife. Basically, this "harmless" gentleman with a knife contributed to the fact that a huge number of people gather on the streets of many cities in Serbia.
At this moment, when the education strike is in progress, the whole of Serbia is cooking and it is increasingly difficult to follow when and where a protest is taking place. On Tuesday 21 January, most of the day was spent running from school to school and preventing education inspectors from carrying out emergency inspections.
SYMBOL OF A NEW MOVEMENT
During that time, President Vučić is trying in every way to draw attention to himself. He tried apartments for students, which God has already forgotten, even though they were offered less than a month ago. Then he reanimated the idea of an advisory referendum, but, under the rush of events, we forgot about that too. We have a lot of work to do, honestly. And in the end, when they didn't know what to do anymore, the progressives go out at night to paint the city with a red fist with the middle finger raised, which, we know, is the international symbol for the penis.
They also dotted the schoolyards, and on the day when this text was written, teachers on strike, and in some cases also activists, used sprays to transform those "djokice" into hearts and flowers. Children from the age of seven go to primary school, so we will agree that it is really abnormal to paint their playgrounds and benches with the symbol of a penis. Seven-year-olds, for now, don't read "Vreme", so we have the freedom to say that the government is behaving absolutely idiotically. That middle finger first appeared on the Facebook and Instagram profiles of numerous SNS officials, of whom the mayor of Kraljevo, Predrag Terzić, attracted the most attention. The man is the mayor of the town from which the SP student was run over and instead of calming down, after declaring a group of students to be "Ustasha", he puts a raised middle finger on Facebook as a profile picture. During that time, Vučić, Vučević and Ana Brnabić spat at each other to prove that they represent "decent Serbia", against which some frantic, simple-minded minority stands.
By the way, they again announced the rebranding of the Serbian Progressive Party and the establishment of some kind of all-powerful all-Serbian overall movement. Whether that middle finger is their new logo, we'll see. For now, it is interesting that their hand showing the "bird" is red. Therefore, they show us that their hands are bloody and that the "duck" hurts.
AND THEY'RE LAUGHING IN OUR FACE
After the protest on January 17, Minister of Defense Bratislav Gašić also spoke and announced a little, but stupidly. Namely, he made a statement calling for the death of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at the protests. "A smiling face in murderous euphoria tells us from the screen 'It's finished' and 'There was a tall man'... This is probably the best image of the wishes of those who have been trying to overthrow the democratically elected government on the street for weeks, under the guise of legalism, concern for institutions and the common good," said Minister Gašić.
Well, now, really, it's a lot more. "It's done" is a slogan from the time of the fight against Slobodan Milošević, where it was clearly meant to leave power. "He was a tall man" is a line from the movie Marathoners run a lap of honorBut that's less important.
It is more important that the list of dead due to corruption, schemes and slander of this regime is longer by eight people as of Monday morning. Eight people died in a fire in a private nursing home in Barajevo. The first information was that the home was operating with a permit and in accordance with all regulations, and that the fire broke out through the fault of the user, who himself was killed. However, it was found out very quickly that the home is owned by an MUP employee, that the number of users found in the home was greater than the capacity for which it was registered, that the owner is close to the regime and has been pouring fecal sewage into neighbors' yards for years and no one responds to reports. A day later, the minister in charge, Nemanja Starović, announced that the nursing home did not operate in accordance with the regulations and that an investigation would be launched.
But let's go back to Gašić and his accusation about some kind of alleged death threat to Vučić. Why is this a very serious problem? After the fall of the canopy and the death of 15 people, after the attempted murder of a student of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, after all the attacks on students and people at the blockades, after the fire in the nursing home in Barajevo, it is clear: they are killing us and while they are killing, they are arguing that someone wants to kill them. And in fact, for all of the above, they are perpetrators, principals, accomplices and helpers. And it is becoming clearer to more and more people.
The propaganda bubble in which they have imprisoned people through their disgusting quasi-media is slowly bursting. And only that middle finger emerges from it, the bloody middle finger with which they will gouge out their own eyes.
Several organizations and political parties called on citizens to join a one-day general strike on Friday, January 24. The idea is to boycott one's own business, buying everything, as well as using public transport, service activities and the like. That day is the last day of the ongoing lawyers' strike, as well as the last day of the current work stoppage for educators (who will then decide what to do next).
It is not clear from the posts on social networks where the call for a general strike on Friday came from, but students who have been blocking their faculties since the end of November are calling for such a form of strike at protests they are organizing across Serbia, demanding that their demands be met.
"Lice ulice" magazine announced on the X social network that they support the general strike and that they will stop their activities for 24 hours on Friday. "Our salesmen and saleswomen will decide individually, within their capabilities, whether they will work," the announcement states.
The Belgrade cafe "Kuća ustanica" on Instagram also shared the information that it will not be open on Friday: "Restaurants, are you closing? Are you there? Let's go, all together", they stated. The satirical portal Newz.net announced on Facebook that it is joining the general strike. The pastry shop "Hello Sugar", known for producing healthy cakes without sugar, will not be open on Friday, and the bookstores Buka Store, Beopolis and Urban Reads have also made the same decision. Since this text was written on Tuesday, January 21, it is certain that by Friday this list will be longer.
The students and their "unrelenting" and revolt due to corruption in society became a catalyst for the rest, and it lasted for almost three months, and the number of participants in the protest is getting bigger and bigger, as well as the number of cities, but also smaller places where they are held, has reached almost 100. It is also interesting to note that the number of participants in the protest grows after each of Vučić's marathon appearances from television to television, or "live broadcast".
That there would be protests in big cities, that could be assumed and the government was ready for that, but they could not have guessed that they would be held in Babusnica, Sokobanja, Trstenik, Aleksandrovac, Bač, Mionica, Surdulica, Svrljig, Vladimirci, Žagubica, Žabari. Or in Bosilegrad, Ćićevac, Brus, Knjaževac, Kostolac, Mladenovac, Petrovac na Mlava, Dimitrovgrad, Obrenovac, Priboj, Mali Zvornik, Ivanjica, Lajkovac or Guča.
What the regime media and their favorite "analysts" claimed that the protests would stop when the students went on vacation, turned out to be completely wrong, - the students did go to their places, so the "specter of protests" spread there as well.
This created a problem for the authorities - they can no longer send the police from various municipalities and cities to Belgrade or Novi Sad, they have to hire them at home. And an additional problem - how will the policeman react if he receives an order to "break up" the gathering and "scatter" the participants if he needs to hit his child, brother, relative or father there. Vučić and his advisers are aware of this, so he no longer uses such threats, but subtly says that he will prevent any highway blockade by force. And for the umpteenth time, he violates constitutional and legal powers because he has no authority over the use of the police and their units, ordinary or special - that is in the domain of the decision of the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior. The President of the Assembly, Ana Brnabić, is also threatened by the police, and only she is not allowed to do that, nor is it in the description of her responsibilities.
This is how another problem for the government arises - what if students and citizens go en masse to block the highway at the same time in various places, how will they manage to "stretch" so many police forces? For example, the students announced the blockade of all three bridges over the Danube in Novi Sad for February 1st. The Novi Sad Gendarmerie detachment will not be enough to "crush" them. And what if, for example, students from Belgrade set off on foot along the highway to help their colleagues from Novi Sad, how far will they go? Or if the citizens of Srem go to join them. Plus those from Backa. How will the police behave then?
There are many unpredictable things in the coming period, but it is obvious that the government failed in its intention to suppress the protests, and they used all possible arsenal of lies and misinformation, including "Croatian spies" and students who, like hundreds of thousands of other citizens of Serbia, have Croatian citizenship. Or Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina. But in this case, according to the tried and tested recipe, they focused on Croatia, which the regime's tabloids usually call "Ustaše", because that is popular with the people... So the "Ustaše spy" is also a young man whose father was wounded in the war in Krajina. It is not important for Vučićević and the others.
Davor Lukacs
Arrests out of the blue, banishment from the country, beatings... All this happened to us in the last week alone. The Serbian Progressive Party, born from the foam left behind by their spiritual father Vojislav Šešelj, is returning to its roots. I can't escape from myself
"The levers of power are not in their hands," said Bishop Grigorije. "But there is something in the Holy Scriptures that I like very much, and that is that the power of God is revealed in weakness. So, all worldly power is on one side. And on the other side, in the hands of these young men and women is the weakness of this world. But in their weakness, the power of God or God's justice appears. That is why they are at such a great advantage."
The regime and its media have been trumpeting the "civil war" for months, and the government is the only one that has a patent for peace and stability - of course, with the help of the propaganda machine and the use of force. "It is a propaganda tactic of SNS that says: 'violence is everywhere, terrorists surround us, but we are here to save you,'" explains communication professor Jelena Kleut for "Vreme".
Students and citizens who accompany them on these walking feats, were welcomed as the most native together with those who came the day before from other places. A dove of peace was also released on the stage next to the promenade along the river - this symbolic gesture of the two students is the most impressive gesture of understanding and respect between the Bosniak and Serbian peoples since the end of the wars in the former Yugoslavia
The three-day parliament for the promotion of Aleksandar Vučić and his Movement for the People and the State was realistically a fiasco. But it was first of all conceived as a media spectacle for regime television directed by court promoter Željko "DJ Žeks" Mitrović, with scenography and iconography adapted to the Serbian political market.
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The government of Đur Mazut is "counter-revolutionary", focused on retaliation and state and street violence against opponents of the regime
Depriving Dejan Ilić, an intellectual with an impeccable life and work biography, of his freedom, without the slightest meaningful reason, is just one of the brutal indicators that the regime has turned against its own citizens and is entering a phase of terror
Vučić and Šešelj: Where I stopped, you continue
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