The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, addressed the citizens who gathered at the protest in front of the building from the balcony of the Rectorate building.
Đokić stated that members of the UKP entered without prior notice or legal explanation.
“They seized computers, receivers, they are searching offices, taking documents,” he stated.
He pointed out that a young woman died on Thursday, adding that this death deserves a thorough investigation.
“We offered full cooperation, but instead we got a political debate on cameras,” he said.
He emphasized that the computers in the Rectorate do not contain relevant information for the police investigation, adding that they all know this.
“While the police were entering through one door, students were coming through the other… spontaneously without an invitation, without buses. They came because they know what is happening, they came because this is their University, they came because they are not afraid,” the Rector of UB said, emphasizing that this is the true image of today—not the police in the Rectorate, but the students in front of it.
Regime television stations broadcast this live, Đokić added, saying they came to tell every professor and student, “see what happens to those who do not remain silent.”
He told the authorities that they can take the receivers and computers, but they cannot take the truth.
“You can search the offices, but you cannot search the conscience of the people,” he said.
He also reflected on the deaths of 16 people in Novi Sad and reminded that no one has been held accountable. Speaking about the authorities, he said they do not fear crime, but education.
He told the students that they could see the police in their University.
“For fifteen months you stood on the streets, in the rain, in the sun, in the frost; they said you would give up, they said you are terrorists, that you are foreign mercenaries, that you are Taliban… What happened today at the University of Belgrade is not an attack on me personally, but on the idea that anything exists in Serbia that the authorities cannot control,” Đokić said.
He also emphasized that the University does not stand upright because it has walls, but because it has people.
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