“Vučić is leaving” echoed thru the streets of Belgrade in the course of the “Serbia against violence” protest

On Saturday, the fifth protest “Serbia towards violence” changed into brought to the streets of Belgrade by tens of hundreds of individuals who surrounded the seat of the president of Serbia in a procession thru the metropolis’s significant streets and, considering the authorities responsible for the boom and tolerance of violence in society, left him severa messages of criticism and requires him to step down. .

Judging by way of the impressions of the contributors and the evaluations of the organizers, these days’s protest is the most big to this point.

The protests, referred to as by using the seasoned-European competition, have been sparked via  mass shootings in early May, while 18 young humans were killed. A 13-year-old scholar killed a faculty protect and 9 college students, and not even forty eight hours later, a 21-yr-vintage younger guy killed 8 people within the metropolis municipality of Mladenovac.

Today’s protest was held precisely one month after the murder inside the standard faculty “Vladislav Ribnikar”.

The protesters also see the ones killed as victims of toleration of violence and hate speech in public space and media managed through the government.

The crowd started out the demonstration as a signal of mourning, piety and against violence, but the protest was a mass motion and rise up of discontent in opposition to the authorities and President Aleksandar Vučić. Following a sequence of in advance needs, the protesters shouted and chanted “Go to Vučić” increasingly loudly tonight stressful his resignation from the publish of head of state.

The authorities rejects obligation, sees the protests as political, and accuses the pro-Western competition of “vultures” on tragedies.

Vučić stated in advance that the authorities will not exchange on the road however in elections.

“Violence does now not resolve issues, it handiest creates new ones”, “Where there may be worry, there lives darkness”, “Don’t belittle us”, “Don’t speak today one thing tomorrow another, we don’t have the memory of a goldfish”, “This is for our youngsters, not for politicians”, “I will chuckle again”, … are simply some of the messages left in front of the seat of the President of the Republic.

Tonight, pro-government media and tabloids referred to as the protests “pro-Western” for the first time. They also said that one registered incident, wherein individuals of the extremely-proper-wing People’s Patrol group attacked a foreign vacationer, cursing him as an “American mother”, was “resulting from the proper-wing”.

On the eve of the protest, the organizers warned of viable provocations that the authorities might inn to with a purpose to discredit the protest and the demands addressed to the authorities.

Many actors, musicians, public figures, students joined the protest after the representatives of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) called the actors who supported the protesters and their demands “scum”.

This week, the actors posted a proclamation calling the reviews of SNS representatives violence, and their messages, in which they suggest that they have got been publicly categorized in diverse approaches as goals of spreading lies, insults and slanders, had been read alongside performances in theaters in the ultimate two days.

The musicians’ affiliation supported the actors, and representatives of numerous non-governmental organizations, institutions and trade unions joined the protests.

“We are not searching out the responsible, we are seeking out obligation”, “Let us unite if you want to defeat this evil that has been created and this is threateningly looming over us”, are a number of the messages of the audio system from this night’s protest.

– I am asking Europe to talk about with Vučić what it has agreed on, and to permit this country discover its very own democratic course. This is a cry for democracy, to turn the issue right into a citizen… I guess Europe doesn’t want subjects – retired Belgrade University professor Miodrag Zec instructed journalists from the Belgrade media.

The organizers of the protest announced that there could be no talks with the President of Serbia till all the needs of the citizens who're “looking for a ordinary country, wherein every body might be safe” are met.

Among other matters, they are worrying the elimination of the leadership of RTS, the cancellation of reality applications and the confiscation of country wide frequencies from the industrial pro-government tv stations Pink and Happy for violating the law, selling violence and immorality and broadcasting program content material that affirms violence, crime and aggression.

The listing of requests also consists of the dismissal of the Minister of the Interior Bratislava Gašić, the Director of the Security Agency (BIA) Aleksandar Vulin, after the Minister of Education Branko Ružić resigned under public stress.

The protests had been sparked by  mass shootings at the start of May, whilst 18 young human beings had been killed, whom the protesters see as sufferers of toleration of violence in public area and media below the manage of the authorities, and these days’s is taking location exactly one month after the murder within the standard school “Vladislav Ribnikar”.

Tonight’s protest officially ended rapidly after nine p.M., however thousands of human beings remained at the streets even longer, and a brand new protest is scheduled for the end of subsequent week.