SERBIA

“HE WHO LIES, ALSO STEALS”: Blockaded Students Accuse SKC Management of Stealing Valuables, Publish List!

by Serbian Times24. July 2025.24. July 2025.

Students under blockade have published a list of items from the Student Cultural Center (SKC) on their official Instagram account “SKC u blokadi,” which they claim the official management of the institution stole from them and from the citizens of Serbia, after they were expelled from the building with the help of police officers.

The list, titled “WHO LIES, ALSO STEALS,” features a photograph of Slavoljub Veselinović, acting director of SKC, on its cover page. His “rich” career can be read about at the provided link. Alongside this, numerous pieces of program equipment, gifts, and donations that the blockaded students received from citizens from February 12, when they liberated the space, until two days ago when they were violently removed from it, are listed.

Alleged Stolen Items and Archives

According to the students, the stolen program equipment includes: a Truss, a film screen (5m*3m), an Acer laptop, 3 acoustic curtains, 2 mixing consoles, 2 condenser microphones, 13 stage lighting fixtures, a server cabinet with broadcasting equipment for online radio, 2 cameras and tripods (Sony a7ii and Canon m50), 2 computers (one for radio, one for archive), acrobatic silks, and a landing mat.

Additionally, the blockaded students state, “besides stealing, you are also trying to erase everything we have built”: memory cards, the printed archive of the liberated SKC, the digital archive of the liberated SKC, a collection of photographs from the exhibition “Protests Before Blockades,” and 2 paintings owned by the General Staff Ensemble.

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Personal Message and Future Questions

The blockaded students also published a handwritten letter given to them by a citizen along with a device inherited from their grandmother.

“You also stole this message from us, the person who wrote it, and her grandmother, regime devotees!” they added, noting that this message, framed, held a special place in the studio.

At the end of their post, the blockaded students shared a question from the reflektor.rs profile, which asks: “What would happen to the state if this happened to the Student Cultural Center?” to which the students added: “…and we wonder too.”

As a reminder, police and the management of the Student Cultural Center (SKC) raided the SKC building at Kralja Milana 48 on the morning of July 22. The students who were inside were expelled with the “wholehearted cheering and gloating of acting director Slavoljub Veselinović,” a cadre of the Socialist Party of Serbia, according to the statement. The students had been in the SKC building since February 12, when they also put forth the demand: “Student spaces for students.”