Nikolaidis: It's a very bad message for a community when you burn a writer

SOURCE: POBJEDA / M.J.
The world will come together and they'll read something that's offensive to me and they'll all laugh and then they'll light the doll on fire and everyone might feel better for 15 seconds and then they'll all have their problems and I'll go on living my life I live and of course I write the way I write, writer Andrej Nikolaidis told Television E after it was announced at the carnival in Herceg Novi that a doll with his image would be burned.
Because does anyone really think I'm going to change anything about the way I write after this. No, I can only be sharper. I react badly to pressure. I'm not a person to be pressured. Whatever bothers you about me, when you press me there will be more of it. And I promise them that - he stated.
Dodo is that it is about the carnival and that only - an ignorant or a vain person - has a problem with the carnival.
I have no problem with them burning my doll and I think the carnival festivities work as a kind of catharsis. To put it simply, they'll burn me at the carnival so they don't burn me in real life and that's good, it's a much better option - it's dodo.
What is problematic, as he said, is that he is not a politician, and his doll will be burned because he is guilty of something to the citizens of Herceg Novi.
However, since I was never in the place of decision-makers, I was not in a position to do them any harm, even if I wanted to, but I absolutely did not - he explains.
In his opinion, one can speak of a kind of cowardice on the part of the organizers, who obviously having a problem choosing one of the politicians, and not wanting to hold a grudge against any of them, chose him who, unlike the politicians, cannot do anything to them.
Another thing, I'm a writer. It's a very bad message for a community when you burn a writer. And if he was there among the people who decide something, regardless of the degree of intolerance towards someone, who is insane, if there was a rational person there, he would say don't, because we will do more harm to ourselves than the public burning and public humiliation of Nikolaidis will do us any good. - he states.
There is, as he says, a third thing which is the worst and most dangerous. And that is that he is an opposition independent journalist.
It is possible that the message about burning an opposition journalist is even worse than the message about burning a writer. So I think that the people who made it did not do well for Herceg Novi. They did me no harm. So, on an extremely cynical level, you know what this means to me? Three international PEN announcements and at least three more translations. I deeply thank you for doing this. I don't have any damage, but they did damage to the city of Herceg Novi - Nikolaidis told Television E.