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What surprised Vučić so much?

2025-10-08 21:44:44Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA IVICA PETROVIC
Aleksandar Vucic

Vu?i?'s bizarre appearance on TV Pink has sparked new conspiracy theories. Vu?i? is threatening an even greater degree of control over all segments of Serbian society.

The conspiracy theory that the collapse of the Novi Sad railway station was the result of sabotage with the help of foreign powers has been present in the regime’s tabloids and in the statements of government leaders for almost a year. However, after a bizarre appearance on TV Pink on Sunday, October 5, Serbian President Aleksandar Vu?i? offered a version of events that would be labeled an irresponsible and dangerous political ploy in some more orderly political systems.

In his classic passive-aggressive tone, he pointed out that local opposition politician Misha Baculov from Novi Sad was probably not guilty, but he was walking around the train station with suspicion and concern hours before he collapsed.

The government's army of bots and the regime's tabloids immediately reacted to this story, showing a video clip of the aforementioned Ba?ulov walking by the Novi Sad train station and looking at his mobile phone. And as absurd as such a connection to the tent collapse may sound, public opinion polls show that it resonates well with Vu?i?'s party electorate.

According to a recent poll by the New Serbian Political Thought (NSPM), up to 40.4 percent of voters in the ruling party believe that the collapse of the tent was a “sabotage orchestrated by foreign services.” The official statement from the High Public Prosecutor’s Office in Novi Sad that the collapse on November 1, 2024 was not the result of any sabotage or terrorist act does not help in this case. The president of the state, in his own way, has thus linked foreign services and the domestic opposition, and for his voters this is now practically the official version of that tragic event.

What surprised Vu?i? so much?
Misa Baçulov during a protest

Creating panic

It is clear that Vu?i? is trying to hide who is responsible for the collapse in this way and "use this deception to hide from the public the fact that something estimated at 320 million euros was paid four times more," Zoran Gavrilovi?, from the Bureau for Social Research (BIRODI), told DW. He estimates that a kind of panic is prevailing within the government ranks due to the anniversary of this tragedy, in which 16 people lost their lives. A report is now being drafted that will look at the details of the event, as it is said.

The Serbian president complained that he was not satisfied that the BIA secret service did not give him recordings of student protests, that a police officer spread lies about a sonic cannon, that the police and the prosecutor's office obstructed the work of the General Staff with the Trump family, that the camps and divisions are the result of some unknown forces in Serbia, or that prosecutors are not answering his phone.

Vu?i?'s lamentations

Nova TV news director Slobodan Georgiev told DW that "Vu?i?'s entire appearance in the media has been a lament, because he doesn't really control everything and everyone in the country."

“It seems like he can’t control every judge, prosecutor, BIA agent or police officer – and that’s worrying. This is kind of an interesting surprise, because he seems unable to understand that there are people in Serbia who go about their business and try to do it, without waiting for Vu?i? to tell them what to do. It seems like he’s used to giving orders to his party chauvinists verbally and over the phone, and that’s why he’s now surprised that someone isn’t answering his phone,” says Georgiev.

He adds that he sees a great danger in all this behavior, because it seems to him that this is a notice that "now they will pass on to those people who are trying to do their job and who are not directly and every day under his control. This is the message 'I came, then see how you do it,'" Georgiev emphasizes.

What surprised Vu?i? so much?
Violent protests in Serbia

Russian propaganda in Serbian style

The fact that over 40 percent of Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) voters believe that the collapse at the railway station was a diversion organized by foreign services is not a surprise to Zoran Gavrilovic, because “right-wing forces are much more likely to believe conspiracy theories”:

"There is also a rationalization among their voters, who simply do not want to believe that there is any responsibility of the authorities for the collapse of the tent. Now it is more a matter of psychology, or even psychopathology, because you have nowhere to communicate certain information to that part of the voters. Vu?i? fills that space with conspiracy theories and diverting attention from the corrupt part of the issues surrounding the Novi Sad tent," Gavrilovi? tells DW.

"I think this percentage should be even higher, considering the level of propaganda these people are exposed to," says Slobodan Georgiev.

"This is Russian propaganda in Serbian form, aimed at driving its voters crazy. I believe there are people in Serbia who, if Vu?i? were to appear and say that today is Wednesday, not Tuesday, they would say yes, today is Wednesday. This is the social crime that this regime is committing, which acts in this radical way, believing that in politics everything is allowed and that everything is possible. Of course it is possible, but as we see, this has dramatic consequences for Serbian society," concludes Slobodan Georgiev for DW. / DW

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