Police lieutenant colonel from Valjevo, Vladimir Jankovi\u0107, resigned in January after refusing to spy in front of the Valjevo Gymnasium on his mother, wife, children, godparents, and friends who gathered there every day at 11:52 to pay tribute to the victims of the collapsed canopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an interview for Vreme<\/em>, he spoke about how he refused to carry out the order, as well as what happened in August in that city, when, according to him, the police caused riots that turned into the beating of citizens in the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jankovi\u0107 resigned in January this year after refusing the order to \u201csecure\u201d the public gathering in front of the Valjevo Gymnasium \u2014 that is, as he says, to record the names of citizens who gathered at 11:52 to honor the victims of the collapsed canopy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe sick minds expected me to spy on my mother, wife, children, godparents, and friends who regularly came to the Valjevo Gymnasium at 11:52 to pay their respects to the victims. It\u2019s hard to repeat everything I said to them at that moment, but the only decent thing I told them was that I would defend my fellow citizens myself, but as a citizen,\u201d said Jankovi\u0107 for Vreme<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When asked to comment on the police violence that occurred in Valjevo on the night between August 14 and 15, Jankovi\u0107 said that it was a complete collapse of the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe police cordon, which was trained and prepared to stop 10,000 people, was completely defeated and humiliated by 300 demonstrators,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He stated that everything that evening was wrong, starting with the police decision to provoke the riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe clashes were initiated by the police, who threw a stun grenade or a similar explosive device directly into the crowd, after which the officers began menacingly striking their batons against their shields and advancing toward the citizens without any warning or order to disperse. Soon after, tear gas was fired directly at the legs of the Intervention Unit cordon, causing many officers to start choking and removing their helmets. After several more tear gas canisters were fired, one of the demonstrators picked up a spent cartridge from the ground and threw it back toward the cordon, after which the cordon scattered,\u201d recounted the former police colonel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added that everything that followed was a ruthless act of revenge by the police, which he said hunted down high school and university students in taxis and bakeries, pulling them out of caf\u00e9s and brutally beating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was an incompetent, disorganized, frustrated, but heavily armed phalanx,\u201d emphasized Vreme<\/em>\u2019s interviewee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the full text in the latest issue of Vreme<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FIRE AND SHOOTING IN \u0106ACILEND: Chaos in the tent settlement in front of the Parliament of Serbia, Vu\u010di\u0107 announced an address!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n VU\u010cI\u0106 ON THE FIRE IN \u0106ACILEND: A pensioner and former DB employee arrested for a terrorist attack!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u0110OKOVI\u0106 GREETED THE PIANIST\u2019S MOVE: Andrej Josifovski restored the destroyed mural of Nole who is pumping iron!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nMORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n