(8 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Novi Sad, Serbia – 8 November 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of Varadin bridge lit up at night
2. Close of police on road
3. Various of people gathering
4. People holding signs reading (Serbian): “We cry even without tear gas,” “They don’t need your sympathy,” “Novi Sad,” and “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty”
5. Close of sign
6. Various of people gathered and blocking bridge
7. Candles lit for the dead
8. Various of protesters putting red handprints on street
9. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Zarko Borcic, protester:
“Because of the murder of the 14 people in Novi Sad I believe the people should do something to get rid of such a genocidal government and save Serbia.”
9. Various of people chanting for government resignations and denouncing public officials as “killers”
10. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Petar Antonijevic, protester:
“That is the only way to show, with peaceful protests, what terrible disaster has occurred and what terrible consequence have resulted from negligence.”
11. Wide of people blocking bridge entrance
STORYLINE:
People in Serbia on Friday continued their anti-government protest over last week’s deadly roof collapse in a northern Serbian city that killed 14 people and injured three.
A few hundred protesters gathered in Novi Sad and blocked traffic attempting to cross a bridge.
The crowds left red handprints on the ground and chanted antigovernment slogans during the demonstration.
Two local civic groups had pledged to block the Varadin bridge for some hours to demand accountability for the people responsible for the collapse of the canopy roof.
They also called the public to turn up in support activists arrested at a protest on Tuesday.
Many blame the roof collapse on rampant corruption, a lack of transparency and sloppy work during renovation work on the station building which was part of a wider railway deal with Chinese state companies.
The accident happened without warning.
Surveillance camera footage showed the massive canopy on the outer wall of the station building crashing down on the people sitting below on benches or going in and out.
Government officials have promised full accountability.
Serbia’s construction minister submitted his resignation on Tuesday.
The protest on Friday evening was peaceful, with people protesting against the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
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