Cords around CZKD, the participants of the “Mirdita” festival arrived accompanied by the police

The police blocked the intersections near the Cultural Decontamination Center, where the “Mirdita, good day” festival was inaugurated, preventing a group of Zavetnik and other right-wing groups from approaching, reports the H1 reporter. Also present is Miša Vacić, leader of the Serbian right wing. The participants from Kosovo had previously arrived under police escort.

One of the young men from the assembled group managed to enter the CZKD and stop the opening by shouting “Serbian victim”. Soon he was escorted by the police.

Those gathered in front of the CZKD, of which there are about 200, belong to the right-wing organization Zavetnici and other right-wing groups, and among them is the organization’s leader, Milica Đurđević, who is addressing them. He asked the police to allow them to come closer and convey their message.

Sima Spasić from the Kosovo Victims’ Families Association is also present, trying to disrupt the event. Those gathered carry the flags of Serbia and the flags of Zavetnik and sing “Oh Kosovo, Kosovo.”

Milica Đurđević and Miša Vacić, a leader of the Serbian right, managed to pass behind the cordon, after the police released them.

“Our message is that the SNS is responsible for the celebration of the Mirdita festival. It is not about Kosovo artists, Mirdita is a political project,” Djurdjevic told H1.

He also said that the key message sent by this festival is “Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO.”

Miša Vacić told H1 that the gathering was not protesting “about the program, but about the festival.”

“This is a protest by various patriotic groups and a great example of unity where we agreed on a common opponent, and that is the Youth Initiative that provokes with this festival,” Vacic said, adding that “there is no cultural heritage of Kosovo, but cultural heritage. Serbia in Kosovo “. “.

Calls for the protest had previously appeared on social media. Against the festival “Mirdita, good day”, and the entrance to the Cultural Decontamination Center, where the festival will take place, is plastered with posters and the message “Mirdita, good night.”

As announced in the announcement on Facebook, the Defenders are to gather in front of the San Sava Temple, from where they will go to the Cultural Decontamination Center, and, as stated in the announcement, several organizations also announced their arrival to protest.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights, which is one of the organizers of the festival “Mirdita, Buen Día”, points out that the message of the festival is to spread peace and reconciliation between Serbian and Kosovar society, and not violence, hatred and separation.