Student Miloš Pavlović said last night at the Emergency Center that he and two other students were attacked in the Student City in Belgrade.
"We were attacked for no reason, just because we were there. The feeling that came over me wasn't just fear, it was chills," Pavlović said, according to the Blic portal.
He said that he and two colleagues were attacked, and added that he hoped that the authorities would find the culprits and that they would be punished.
Serbian Health Minister Zlatibor Lončar stated that the students had "back, stomach and abdominal injuries."
"His friend is currently undergoing diagnostics, a scan is being done. The boy suffered a blow to the kidney area where he had previously undergone surgery. So far, only two diagnostics have been performed," said Lončar.
Miloš Pavlović is one of the students who oppose the blockades of faculties in Serbia and are staying in Pioneer Park in Belgrade as a sign of protest.
Pavlović: We were the target of an organized, ruthless and fascist attack
Faculty of Medicine student Miloš Pavlović said that he and a group of colleagues who oppose the faculty blockades were the target of an "organized, ruthless and fascist attack" last night in front of the Student City in Belgrade.
At a press conference in Pionirski Park in Belgrade, Pavlović assessed that the incident was reminiscent of events from the 1930s in Germany and Austria when, in his words, Nazis stood at the gates of faculties and schools and barred Jews from entering with the sentence: "You don't belong here."
"So last night, the crowd told me that I couldn't sit there just because I thought differently. My colleagues and I were attacked just because we were sitting in a cafe and thinking differently, because we stood for education, learning, work and effort. We saw what this democracy they stand for means," said Pavlović.
He assessed that tonight's events in front of Student City "are not an incident but an attack on all people who think for themselves."
"I came to a cafe next to Student City to talk to friends I hadn't seen in five months. When we tried to leave, for no reason they threw cans and bottles at us, and I was hit in the face. Then the crowd started hitting us, and at one point six of them were hitting me. A hundred of them gathered against the five of us, but they didn't scare us or silence us," Pavlović said.
He called on authorities to "as soon as possible" identify those responsible for the attack.
"We can't go on like this, that you can't sit in a cafe because you're students who want to study," said the student.
Vučić: Everyone who attacked Pavlović and his colleagues will be held accountable
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said today that everyone who attacked Pavlović and his colleagues in the Student City in Belgrade will be held accountable for it, and described the event as horrific violence and lynching.
"One of our best students went to a cafe in Student City. A gang of blockaders surrounded the cafe, started hitting the glass (...) Everyone who participated in the lynching will be held accountable before the face of justice," Vučić said in a video message posted on the social network Instagram.
According to Vučić, the state has suffered and remained silent, but will now react.
Brnabić accused "Nazi blockade hordes": "Every free person in Serbia is a 'brother'"
Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabić has accused "Nazi blockade hordes" of an incident last night in the Student City in Belgrade, in which a group of students opposing the faculty blockades were attacked.
In a conversation with the attacked students in Pionirski Park in Belgrade, she assessed that "the worst Nazis" were behind the attack.
"You are the bravest among us because they could have realistically killed you. You stood in defense of Serbia, in defense of all people in Serbia, regardless of what they think and who they are. In defense of the rule of law, the Constitution and laws, in defense of human rights. No one has the right to tell you that you cannot enter your faculties because that is Nazism from Vienna and Munich in the 1930s," said Brnabić.
She said the state had "finished withdrawing" and expected those responsible for the incident to be identified, detained and prosecuted.
"I spoke with the president (Aleksandar Vučić), they will all be identified. I expect them all to be detained and prosecuted. From now on, there is no retreat. They wanted to kill our children, that is the whole point," said the parliament speaker.
She assessed that after last night's incident, "everything was seen" and that from today "every single person in Serbia is a 'papa'."
"Every now and then we have Vidovdan, last night was Vidovdan. They have shown once again that they are the worst cowards because they can never go out one on one, but 150 of them need to gather against four. This also happened in Niš, in Obrenovac, in Doljevac. There have to be 150 of them to attack one. They have bikers, they have fake veterans, so they think they are very dangerous. That is real fascism," said Brnabić.
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