Thread by @ImStevan, The entire story of the current situation in Serbia, a thread:tw [...]

The entire story of the current situation in

Serbia, a thread:

tw // blood
tw // police brutality
tw // violence

#Belgradeprotest #Serbia #Serbiaprotests #Serbiaprotest #ĆALEOVOJEZATEBE #DADTHISISFORYOU #ACAB

First, we need to look at the background of the protests.

In February 2020, first coronavirus cases were registered in the north of Serbia. We were told by state sponsored professionals that the virus is a joke and that "women should go shopping in Milan because there will be sales" amid the epidemic in Italy.

From there things started escalating as more cases were resported each day. Halls started turning into Covid hospitals, with regular hospitals soon following. A curfew was soon introduced and altered multiple times, but it generally...

...followed a relatively similar pattern that you couldn't leave during the evening and night hours, unless you were commuting to or from work. Public transport was no more. People older than 65 in cities and 70 in rural areas were not allowed to leave their property at any...

...given time. The services which were supposed to provide supplies to the elderly were in many cases unresponsive, so the elderly had to rely on the kindness of their neighbours. In some cases, the elderly that live off farming were not permitted to attend to their crops...

...which are in many cases their only income of money or food because of their low social income. After the lockdown was imposed, home protests began in which people would bang pots and pans from their balconies and windows.

As a response, pro-regime sympathizers funded and organized by the ruling party held torchlights on the roofs and balconies of residential buildings, in major cities in belgrade, causing a major fire hazard.

In May 2020, the curfew was lifted. We were allowed to move freely with social distancing and masks, something that was not enforced whatsoever. The number of cases was dropping (or so we were told). Football games with thousands of observers were held, aswell as Adria Tour...

to prove to the public that they handles the situation and that the epidemic is almost over. The elections were coming up and were marked by the state professionals as a low risk event that would not represent a harm to the public. Everybody would be required to wear a mask...

...at the polling stations, something that was not enforced nor followed by the polling commitees. The elections were riddled with controversies such as more people voting for the ruling party than there are voters in several polling places, regime party members...

...being given lists of people that haven't voted yet and visiting them at their homes to encourage them to go and vote, aswell as people being paid 8€ if they had photo evidence that they voted for the ruling party.

The win was of course celebrated with live music, drinks, with no masks or social distancing, something they have been urging people to respect. Once the elections were over, the regime blamed the spike in new cases on students which are forced to take their exams physically...

...without an option to do it online. Students were moved in and out of their dorms multiple times, without any sort of assistance for them to get back to their homes. When asked about how students that came from other countries would get back to their respective countries...

...the president said "They do not matter". Students went out on the streets to protest the govornment treating them like human trash, moving them in and out of their dorms as if they are pieces of furniture instead of people.

While all of that was happening, videos from the city of Novi Pazar started surfacing, showing overcapacitated hospitals, patients being admitted in the hallways with other people, dead bodies, Covid patients being in the same spaces as regular patients...

and a lack of masks and medical equipment.

The govornment started reporting over 300 cases and multiple deaths per day, the worse its ever been. They do not claim that it is the fault of the elections or the events approved by them, it's the students taking exams and people not social distancing.

On the 7th of July 2020, a new curfew was announced and what was once suspected was now confirmed. The curfew was lifted so we could attend (the rigged) elections. All the events were held so the elections wouldn't be the only mass gathering happening during that time.

People took it to the streets to protest all the lies that were served to the people of Serbia over the years, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. Not organized by any political parties, but spontaneously.

Protesters stormed the parliament building before being kicked out by the police. All the opposition party leaders that showed up to the protests were forcibly removed from the protests by the protesters
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This man's father passed away due to a lack of ventilators, something the president claims we have in plenty. State sponsored media response? "He was a punk in high school and was the first in his class to have a cellphone", aswell as airing...

a video he posted on his facebook account in 2018 where he went clubbing, claiming that it was shot few days prior, and asking "if that's how you grief the loss of a loved one".

The police is showing no mercy to the people attending the protests, demonstrating police brutality and abuse of power, while the president claims that police officers are the victims.

and its not just the protesters, they will beat up whoever is there, as shown in this video of an officer tackling a 13 year old boy off his bike, and another one kicking him before throwing his bike away.

Police brutality is not an American problem, it's worldwide. The police are throwing tear gas at the protesters, and claiming that it's the protesters throwing gas at the police instead, claiming they are the ones threatened.

TL:DR
Serbia isn't protesting the lockdown. Serbia is protesting all the lies served to us and the dictatorship that has been in place for years. We want the truth. We want democracy. We want progress.

and now pics: