How the regime is stomping on the future of this country: Scared Vučić started attacking students with a baton, but the resistance is getting stronger

Shock bombs, tear gas, batons, insults, arrests, intimidation… This is what Aleksandar Vučić’s regime is serving up to students these days, the future of our country, as he liked to say at the beginning of the protests and blockades, probably unaware of the extent of the resistance. Bojan Pajtić, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad, says that anyone who thinks they can defeat the youth of Serbia is deeply mistaken and that this battle is lost in advance.

After nine months of relatively peaceful protests and gatherings of citizens, the streets of Serbia have become the scene of violent clashes between demonstrators and the police and supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party.

Batons, tear gas, smoke bombs, torches, and destroyed offices of the Serbian Progressive Party have become the new reality.

These events are accompanied by comments from the authorities, who call the students “blockaders,” then “fascists, Ustasha,” and those who want to destroy Serbia.

But that’s not the worst of it.

In recent days, attacks and detentions of students, or, as the President of Serbia has often emphasized, the future of our country, have become more frequent.

On Tuesday morning, ETF student Andrej Tanko was detained at the address where his mother was registered, as he was not at the address where he was registered.

He is accused of assaulting a public official in the performance of his duties, as the police identified him as having sprayed members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a liquid of unknown chemical composition in front of the Katarka restaurant on August 13 in order to break through the police cordon together with other individuals. According to the police, he sprayed them under their helmets and tore off their shields.

Tanko became one of the most recognizable faces of the student uprising because of a photo taken earlier this year in which one of the opponents of the student blockades provocatively stepped in his face. Many remember Andrej’s calmness in the face of provocations and vulgar language during the attacks.

In addition, according to the students, Andrej had only one exam left to complete his studies, which he was supposed to take on Thursday.

On the same day that Andrej was detained, a student from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade was arrested on a bus. Protests were organised because of her arrest, and she was released a day later, on Thursday.

She said that at the time of her arrest, she was on bus 511 on her way to Sremčica. She was arrested for allegedly vandalising the SNS premises on Cvijićeva Street in Belgrade, which she denies.

However, the case that shocked the Serbian public the most was the testimony of Nikolina Sinđelić, who stated that Marko Kričak, commander of the unit responsible for protecting certain buildings and individuals, threatened to rape her during her arrest. Two days later, her intimate photos began to be published. This sparked a wave of protests in Serbia on Tuesday evening with messages of support for Nikolina.

In addition to threats and arrests, students in Serbia have been subjected to severe police violence in recent days, while the same police officers do not react when supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party attack citizens.

This is the image and face of a regime that, at the beginning of the blockade, although visibly embittered, called students the future of Serbia.

“These young people are our future, for better or for worse. The sooner they return to their desks and study, the better,” Vučić once said.

Professor Bojan Pajtić from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad comments on the regime’s treatment of students, saying that we did not inherit this planet from our ancestors, but borrowed it from our descendants. “The future of this country lies exclusively with young people. It can only be built and developed by literate and educated girls and boys who are currently in secondary schools and universities,” says Pajtić.

He added that the future of this country does not lie in mediocrity and criminals gathered around this regime, together with, as he says, murderers and drug dealers, whom progressives are pitting against students.

“Anyone who thinks that the future and the youth of this country can win is seriously mistaken. They must know that this battle is already lost and that it is only a matter of weeks before this regime collapses under the pressure of those who are coming and to whom this country belongs. This country certainly does not belong to the Vučić family, and it certainly does not belong to the criminals who surround it,” says Pajtić.

Nova’s interlocutor emphasizes that the regime’s behavior is hysterical and violent.

“This reflects the character of Aleksandar Vučić, who is cowardly. He doesn’t know what to do, how to act, and then he resorts to violence. It is obvious that the kleptocratic structures that rule Serbia are in a panic and then resort to measures that are counterproductive. Every child who is beaten with a baton, detained for no reason, insulted through their media, has friends and relatives who will never forgive them for this. A wise government strives to maintain peace in society. When imbeciles rule a country, they turn those who disagree with them into mortal enemies, and that is what the regime in Serbia is doing today. Although no one wants a bad outcome to this crisis, the regime is demanding it every hour of every day,” says Pajtić./Nova.rs/