Academician launches petition against Serbia’s President hate speech

The Internet petition calls on Vucic to stop with spreading hate speech, deepening the divisions among the population and insulting Serbia’s citizens.

It says that the universities’ and high schools’ professors, researches, assistants, faculties’ and high schools’ graduates who want a democratic and European Serbia and are, committed to the Constitution and the university’s chapter Magna Carta, signed by 388 European rectors in 1988, condemn Aleksandar Vucic’s statements and public addresses by which he defends the violators of the academic honour, spreads hate speech and attacks University professors.

“With statements in which he says he detests a part of his citizens and declares them ‘a false elite’, Aleksandar Vucic directly deepens the divisions in the society and expands the spirit of intolerance and hatred. With his acts, written texts and verbal statements, Aleksandar Vucic directly violates the articles of Serbia’s Constitution which ban discrimination, human dignity, freedom of expression and the University’s autonomy.”

By July 11, 700 people signed the petition.