Are these the Dalton brothers? And at the sixth mass protest in Belgrade, citizens shouted: ‘Vučić is leaving’.

Tens of thousands of people blocked the center of Belgrade on Friday, for the sixth time in the last month, with mass anti-government protests “Serbia against violence”, inspired by two tragedies from the beginning of May, in which 18 students were killed in a Belgrade elementary school and two villages in the surrounding area. young people. The protest began with the elegiac piano composition “Emotions” by Andrije Čikić, one of the nine students killed at the “Vladislav Ribnikar” school on May 3, and then with silence in which 18 gongs were alternately struck, symbolically honoring the 18 killed in two mass shootings, unprecedented in the modern history of Serbia. This was followed by a series of speeches by actors, representatives of the academic community and public figures, in which the key message was sent to the authorities to take responsibility and curb violence and verbal demonstrations of hatred in the parliament, reality programs of pro-government television and regime media. Actress Jelisaveta Seka Sablić said that people gather for days because they are against violence, and that “violence is when there is no justice, or when it is barely attainable”. Her colleague Milan Marić said that Serbia should be “a country of love, not a country of fear”, and his speech was followed by the crowd shouting “Vučić go”. Balloons with messages to the head of state Vučić and the head of the Security Agency (BIA) Aleksandar Vulin were then released into the air. “Restart system” is written on black and white balloons, and “Vuline is leaving” and “Vučić is leaving” on the banners. Protesters also carried placards with the figures of Vučić, Vulina, the head of the regulatory process for electronic media (REM), the owner of pro-government commercial television and the editor of the Vučić-friendly tabloid “Informer”, dressed in prison uniforms. The procession then headed in front of the Serbian Parliament through the central city streets to the Government of Serbia building, which is symbolically surrounded by a live chain where thousands of people shouted “Vučić go”, “Treason” and “Resignation”. At today’s protest, as well as at last week’s protest, students with the message “Students are not silent” were at the head of the procession. The protests are supported by numerous non-governmental organizations, civil movements and initiatives, trade unions, students, high school students, and today, with more than a thousand signatures university professors and scientists, was supported by the academic community, whose proclamation included, among other things, the message that “for a whole decade” Serbia has been a country “where there is no political responsibility”.