Imagine this – just one day before the big Vidovdan protest, the Serbian government pulls out the same old tired trick: bomb threats on the railways! Yes, you read that right. Serbian Railways received an anonymous tip that all trains and tracks were rigged with explosives, forcing a temporary halt to passenger traffic. But wait, this isn’t the first time! The exact same scenario played out the day before the March 15 protest, when trains also stopped running. Coincidence? Or a staged move to stop people from outside Belgrade from joining the protests? Sources from Danas don’t buy the coincidence theory.
Lawyer Božo Prelević doesn’t mince words – he calls this the lowest point of state politics, which has sunk so low it’s now using transparent tricks fit for elementary school kids. The bomb threat is a blatant attempt to stop a civic uprising demanding media freedom, rule of law, and justice. Meanwhile, students and veterans are being arrested, and the constitutional order is under attack. Prelević warns this is a step towards an even deeper state collapse.
Activist from Novi Sad, Brković, adds that people won’t be stopped by this stunt. Vučić, he says, is pulling desperate moves to crush the student-civil protests, but it’s not working. For half a decade now, these bomb threats and train stoppages before big gatherings have been routine under this dictatorship – yet protests only grow.
And the worst part? The police don’t respond properly. No one hunts down the culprits, and it’s suspected that people from the top echelons of power act on the president’s orders. This all shows the dysfunction of Serbia’s system and institutions. But the people are determined – they’ve walked across Serbia on foot, and trains or buses won’t stop them. Maybe, just maybe, the railway will magically start working on Saturday, on a special Belgrade-Budapest train carrying the president and his entourage to a warm embrace with Viktor Orbán.
If this doesn’t sound like a bad political thriller, what does? Drop a comment, share your thoughts – is this really a coincidence or a staged farce? And is Vučić’s regime ready to go all the way to silence the voice of the people? Just don’t say it’s all about safety, because citizen security shouldn’t be an excuse to crush protests!
