Natan Albahari (Photo: Movement of Free Citizens)
Free Citizens Movement international secretary Natan Albahari has said that it is logical that Head of the European Union Delegation to Serbia Andreas von Beckerath had to enter the National Assembly building through a side door in order to hand Speaker Ana Brnabic the European Commission report on Serbia's progress when, as he put it, "the doors of democracy have long been closed in Serbia."
The gesture, Albahari told the Nov. 7 issue of the Danas daily, only confirmed what the ruling Serbian Progressive Party has been trying to hide - "that they were exactly the ones who shut down democracy in this country, and the eyesore in front of the parliament is just additional proof of that shutdown."
"Do they really think Ambassador Von Beckerath cannot see what is happening? Are they that deluded [to think] that anyone from the diplomatic community believes that 'students who want to study' are sitting there, and not the core of criminal structures and paid members of the Serbian Progressive Party?" he wondered.
He also said that all of Europe was seeing "this absurd performance, unprecedented anywhere in the world," where the authorities were blocking their own entrance to the parliament and "filling it with violent thugs and convicted war criminals."
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