Jeremic: Regime Infiltrated Thugs To Deter Protesters

Vuk Jeremic (Beta/Milos Miskov)

People’s Party leader Vuk Jeremic has said that the regime has infiltrated hooligans among the protestors s tasked with provoking the police, who would in return brutally beat peaceful demonstrators, which was why a large number of citizens has decided to stay at home and do not expose themselves to the risk of suffering serious injuries.

“It is a trick employed by President Aleksandar Vucic and his regime to deter the disgruntled citizens from mass protests. However, this time, they could not hide the ties between thugs and the police as videos have been made, evidencing coordination between them,” Jeremic told portal Balkan Insider in the evening on July 13.

Asked whether foreign elements had been infiltrated in the protests as claimed by the Serbian authorities, Jeremic said that whenever Vucic found himself in a political or diplomatic trouble, he would launch a story blaming it all on foreign intelligence services.

“Vucic has been telling the Russians that the West is against them and has been plotting to stage the Ukrainian scenario in the form of a new Euromaidan, while in parallel telling the West that Moscow has organized everything as he opposes Serbia as a Russian colony, while he has been telling Serbia’s citizens that the Albanian and Croatian intelligence wish to provoke chaos. But, one cannot be sitting in two chairs for ever, and I believe that the time for such cunning acts is over,” Jeremic specified.

Protests in Serbia were also held in the evening on July 13. In Belgrade, people, including opposition leaders, gathered outside the Central Prison, demanding immediate release of all individuals arrested during the protests.