Citizens of Leskovac in Serbia, who initially went on a protest walk because of the dismissal that their fellow citizen, as he claims, received from the Pension Fund due to his participation in the protest in Niš, protested today in front of the building of the National Theater there, where Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić held a conversation with citizens.
A police cordon prevented citizens from approaching the theater, reports N1, which announced that a professor at the Dejan Stanišić High School was detained after trying to break through the cordon and enter the theater building.
After Vučić left the theater, citizens walked from the Gymnasium to the Pension Fund to support the accused worker Aleksandar Drašković, N1 reports.
Vučić stated today that he will ask state authorities to act at all times and in all places in a way that protects order and law, noting that those who do not will be "changed", Beta reported.
"Those police officers who do not want to protect order and the law will be replaced, prosecutors who do not want to protect it will be replaced," Vučić said in a conversation with citizens at the National Theater in Leskovac during a visit to the Toplica and Jablanica districts, and accused the "blockades" of violence.
Vučić assessed that "what the prosecutors did in Niš is the greatest shame" and asked how it was possible that "with so much violence in Niš last night, the prosecutors are not requesting detention."
"This is a good signal of what kind of reforms we need to implement in the future and what we will have to do," said Vučić, assessing that "the prosecution is autonomous, but not independent."
He also said that the police, or rather "certain state bodies", did a poor job last night in Niš when "thugs attacked citizens".
He repeated the claim that "a lot of money has entered Serbia" to "implement a colored revolution," but said that he would not give up on his policies, but would "fight even harder and more vigorously."
In Leskovac, he said, 200 people gathered in front of the National Theater, who were "ordered from Belgrade to throw something at him," but they did not do so, but only "blow their own horns."
Vučić said during a conversation with citizens in Leskovac that six people were seriously injured at the protest in Niš, and that two people suffered a broken jaw.
Mateja Nikolić, a law student from Niš, who was detained by the police last night after protests and the cancellation of an SNS rally in that city, has been released, N1 reports, citing unofficial information.
They say that the Niš police did not respond to their inquiry last night about how many people were detained and on what grounds after incidents in which officials were pelted with eggs.
Nikolić, N1 reminds us, informed his colleagues that he had been detained immediately after a video appeared on his social media accounts showing Niš Mayor Dragoslav Pavlović being attacked on the street by a group of people, although he was protected by several people while passersby, according to the video, threw eggs and poured water on him.
As unofficially reported to N1, the police confiscated the student's phone during their detention, and as his colleagues told those gathered in front of the police station during the night, he is being charged with violent behavior.
Another student from the Faculty of Economics was arrested, the media outlet reminds.
Students blocking the University of Niš announced that three of their colleagues were arrested last night. They condemn the lack of transparency regarding the circumstances of their arrests and demand that the authorities provide a clear explanation for the reasons for the arrests, ensure transparency in the proceedings, and guarantee fairness in their conduct.
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