(14 Mar 2025)
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Belgrade – 14 March 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Students playing drums as they arrive
2. Various of students arriving, lit flares
3. Various of people greeting students, students getting medals
4. Various of bikers driving
5. People on bicycles arriving
6. People holding Serbian flags
7. Banner reading: (Serbian) "Welcome”
8. Students playing drums
9. Various of people holding up mobile phones with lights
10. People standing on balcony with Serbian flag
11. Fireworks
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people were converging in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Friday, the eve of a major anti-government rally, despite official warnings that violence was planned and populist government fear-mongering aimed at dissuading people from attending.
Marching university students have been arriving to a festival-style welcome in downtown Belgrade from across the country while tens of thousands more people are expected to gather for the rally on Saturday.
The protest is seen as a culmination of months of anti-graft demonstrations in the Balkan country and a test for President Aleksandar Vucic’s right-wing government, which has faced mounting popular discontent.
The autocratic leader has repeatedly warned that violence is planned at the rally and threatened arrests over any incidents. Vucic’s supporters have been camping in the city centre, fuelling fears of clashes with the protesters.
At a news conference on Friday evening, a defiant Vucic again said that authorities have received multiple reports of alleged planned unrest and described Saturday’s rally as “illegal.”
Vucic reiterated claims that Western intelligence services were behind the protests with an aim to oust him from power.
AP video by Nenad Nesic
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