Actor Dragan Gagi Jovanović will walk with students and citizens from Belgrade to Novi Sad for the largest commemorative gathering so far, setting off from the capital on October 30. He tells Nova.rs that he hopes he will last the walk until the end, that he has trained a little, and that he has bought new sneakers.
Jovanović, along with Professor Jovo Bakić, visited the students from Novi Pazar, who started walking to Novi Sad on October 16, when he announced to them that he would join them on this walk.
“I have long wanted to go to Novi Sad to leave flowers, but I was not ready until now. Now I will go with the students and I hope I will last until the end. I trained a little, and I bought new sneakers, because footwear is the most important thing,” Jovanović says with a smile.
“Miša is a decathlete and I believe that I will last with him because he is an athlete,” the famous actor points out.
He starts from Zemun However, he admits, he will shorten the route a little.
“The students start from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, and I will join them in Zemun, after 16 minutes of silence, which will be near the Medical School. I told the students that I would like to be at the back of the column, because if I falter at times, I won’t be able to catch up with them, but let them decide,” says Jovanović.
His desire, he says, is to restore the significance of student walks.
“Their walks were the most beautiful thing since the beginning of the protests, and I want to restore their significance in this way. They woke people up and showed the true core of the student struggle. This time I will not sing because I believe it is not the occasion, it is a commemorative walk after all,” the actor says.
He will walk with the students to Novi Sad for eight hours a day.
“The plan is to walk twice for 35 kilometers, more precisely four to five kilometers per hour. We leave on October 30 and go to Inđija where we will sleep, and then we leave for Novi Sad on the morning of the 31st. It occurred to me at one point that I could walk with them, so I decided to do so, and then I will rest,” says Jovanović.
We remind you that students from Novi Pazar will walk a total of 350 kilometers as part of the “16 Days for 16 Victims” march to Novi Sad on November 1, when a large commemorative gathering has been announced.
By the way, as we previously announced, about 4,000 students from Belgrade alone will set off on the journey to Novi Sad on foot, but the number will, apparently, be much larger, because students are walking from different parts of Serbia. Interest is also great at all faculties, so the students blocking the Faculty of Organizational Sciences announced that they have 200 registered, but that there are just as many unregistered, and registrations are still ongoing.
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Source: Nova.rs, Photo: Elmedin Hajrovic / ATAImages; M.M. / ATAImages