Mass protests in Maribor against the Mayor Franc Kangler who is considered by the citizens of Maribor to be corrupt, as well as against the local authorities, started last month, on November 26 and are still going on. Protests which in the very beginning gathered some 600 citizens have quickly turned into the so called „second Maribor rebellion“ and in the series of protests on December 3rd some 10 000 people have protested. Until now several dozens of police officers and protestors have been injured in these demonstrations and several hundred people have been arrested. Demonstrations have quickly spread to other Slovenian cities.
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNSp1Gvl5HE
Although the Maribor mayor Franc Kangler at the beginning
claimed that he will not resign, because that would not be good for his
citizens, on Thursday of December the 6th
he announced his resignation. He said that the he will remain at the position
of the Maribor Mayor until December 31.
Uncensored video clip. Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/mbhcReport?feature=watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz1W8UENFPI&feature=youtu.be
According to the largest national daily newspaper in Slovenia „Delo“ the resignation of the Maribor Mayor Franc Kangler might be too late. You can read more in the article published by Delo. Source: http://www.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/archiv/results/archiv_article/ARTICLE115457-Mayor-of-Maribor-resigns-too-late
Even in Ljubljana the citizens are demanding for the resignation of their Mayor Zoran Jankovic, as well as the resignations of all the politicians in the country, therefore more than 12 000 people have protested.Protests have started peacefully to escalate into violence resulting in doznes of injured police officers and protestors.
source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOQ0iOe8G8
Among other things slogans said „he is finished“, „Zoki, you thief“, „rule of the people and not of the parties“ and other slogans demanding the removal of the leading politicians in Slovenia. One of the interesting slogans was also this one:
(90 of you, 200.000 of us. Fuck Off!)
Source of the photo: FB page MBHC report http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=305777786189169&set=a.305776736189274.54393.296075443826070&type=1&theater
Here are some of the photos of the protests in Ljubljana:
Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350918961670807&set=a.350918955004141.81395.168927043203334&type=3&theater
Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350919558337414&set=a.350918955004141.81395.168927043203334&type=3&permPage=1
Source: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350919658337404&set=a.350918955004141.81395.168927043203334&type=3&theater
More on the political and economy background of the
protests in Slovenia you can read in the following article published by IPOT
News. Source: http://www.ipotnews.com/index.php?jdl=Protests_shake_former_EU_poster_boy_Slovenia&level2=newsandopinion&level3=&level4=marketoverview&id=1762321
On twitter you can mostly find comments mentioning water cannons used by the police to disperse the protestors:
On twitter you can mostly find comments mentioning water cannons used by the police to disperse the protestors:
Ljubljana citizens are hoping that this evening's protests will remain
in the peaceful atmosphere as can be seen in the following tweet:
That protests in Slovenia are closely followed by the citizens of other
regional countries can be seen in the following tweet by a Serbian citizen
saying that he hopes Serbian citizens will organize the protests against their
politicians some day:
The next "Fourth Maribor rebellion" has been announced for December 14th on the fb group "Franc Kangler naj odstopi hot zupan Maribora" where together with the invitation to the protests they have added the polls in which you can vote which slogan the protest will be held under. Watch here:
On this link you can follow the protests in Slovenia live:
Latest tweets on the Slovenian police web page regarding the
arrests of the protestors in Maribor have caused even more reactions and
reponses on the police actions towards the protestors from the Slovenian people
on tweeter. You can see the Slovenian police tweets below:
Comments on the Slovenian police tweets given by the
Slovenian citizens you can see below:
More tweeter comments to follow
# ljprotest
#mbprotest
#gotofje
#gotoviso
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