Written by: Đorđe Šćepović
If anyone thought this was a metaphor, it isn’t. Sadly, it’s all too literal. Fascism struck someone in the face this time. A mayor, no less. We’ve all felt its blows in one way or another, but Nikola Jovanović got it directly, so forcefully that he had to be hospitalized at the Clinical Center in Podgorica.
And we didn’t need a statement from the regime’s captive police force to tell us who was behind it. Who else could it be but the so-called oppressed and tormented officials of the ruling parties? Criminals with party cards in their pockets.
Yes, Nikola Jovanović was violently attacked in the very town he governs. Yes, he was assaulted by members of the New Serbian Democracy, individuals already flagged as security risks. The ringleader? A man with a rap sheet that would make even Montenegro’s most prolific crime writers blush.
And yet, as savage as the act itself was, what followed was even more grotesque: the regime’s act of surprise. Imagine being shocked by your handiwork, stunned that the septic tank you’ve spent years filling with s**t has finally overflowed?
When you see and hear all of this, you have to ask: What kind of swamp are we living in? What kind of madness surrounds us? This isn’t chaos, it’s a project. Violence is no longer shocking. It’s normalized. It’s a lab test. And we’re the rats, being conditioned to accept it.
The institutions, paralyzed, hijacked, do nothing. Because they’re part of the test. How far can the regime go? How much can the public endure? And we seem to be setting new records in just how much humiliation we can take.
Even Vučić’s SNS doesn’t go as far as Mandić and his partners. And let’s not forget: their coalition partners in government are also their accomplices in the assault on Jovanović. No exceptions, despite the fake, performative condemnations.
Among the avalanche of nonsense coming from those in power, the Democrats, as usual, lead the pack. Even those who likely gave the direct order to attack Jovanović, namely the New Serbian Democracy and their propaganda machines, which paint targets for elimination, aren’t as ludicrous.
Let’s not forget: these are the same people who were praising Jovanović just yesterday. Now, they’re downplaying his injuries as the result of a “personal dispute” or a “mutual fight.” According to them, he wasn’t attacked; it was just a brawl. Sure. A brawl with anyone who dares to say no to Aleksandar Vučić’s “exclusive defenders of Serbdom.”
So, the price for Nikola Jovanović’s courage, for being a Serb who isn’t “Serb enough” for their agenda, is to be beaten bloody. If I understood New Serbian Democracy’s statement correctly, Nikola will be “forgiven by Jovo for being beaten”. Or was it Đuro (a well-known line from a Yugoslav movie)? Either way, what’s even more revolting than this is the statement from Democratic Montenegro.
A statement that essentially blames Jovanović for what happened to him. Because he sent the Democrats into opposition. Because he took away what they crave above all, power. That’s why their message reads: “We don’t support violence, but...” Ah, yes, the infamous but.
It’s not okay to break someone’s nose, jaw, and cheekbone, but it is understandable if that person is the reason you lost power and ended up in the political dumpster of Budva.
According to the Democrats, all of this was somehow necessary because the terrible specter of the DPS is supposedly rising from the depths again. And it’s all Nikola Jovanović’s fault. Disgusting is too mild a word.
At this point, it’s not even polite to say the word “Democrats” out loud. It takes a special kind of person to belong to a cult that treats a sharp comment in Parliament like an assassination attempt, while justifying the brutal beating of Nikola Jovanović in the same breath.
And it takes a PES MP, like Tonći Janović, for example, to compare a whistle aimed at Mujović with a violent physical assault on Jovanović.
And then there’s Filip Adžić, who once saddled fascism, defended it, justified it for years, now suddenly declaring: “Montenegro has collapsed, morally and in terms of security. The government must fall.”
Just in case anyone forgot: everything happening today is the direct result of what the URA party did in 2020. Everyone who celebrated “freedom” back then, who claimed to protect trees, rivers, and mountains, but spent years enabling fascism under the chant “30 years!”, they are complicit in every single atrocity this regime now commits.
It’s the height of hypocrisy to cry over a monster you helped create.
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