As stated in the report by the Freed SKC, when the students inhabiting the building were kicked out on the street, acting director Slavoljub Veselinović was present and he was, as described, “cheering and gloating“ and “arrived at the location momentarily in company of regime backed newspaper agencies such as Informer”.
“We want to remind acting director Slavoljub Veselinović (member of Socialist Party of Serbia, a party working hand in hand with the ruling party), that he has been holding this institution hostage and inactive for 15 years in continuity, and that he has spent 30 years as the institution’s president. This institution of student and youth culture was taken from the University in 1993, when it also lost its autonomy, and started sinking into what the students saved it from on February 12th this year with their demand of ‘STUDENT SPACES [should be] FOR STUDENTS’”, said the students gathered in front of the Freed SKC.
As a reminder, only a few days ago, Belgrade Cultural Center Hall was ‘unblocked’ so to speak in a similar way, after also being under the control of cultural workers and activists which took it over five months ago. This act of breaking into SKC has marked the end of the last blockade, i.e. freed state, of cultural institutions.
I.P., A.S.
