(13 Nov 2024)
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Valjevo, Serbia – 12 November 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protesters throwing eggs at the headquarters of lithium mining company
2. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Branko Ivkovic, protest organizer:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3-4++
"We really don’t have a choice. This is a question of life for us. Our survival. So we have to fight. In that sense, we set some deadlines – those deadlines have not been met. We demanded that company EuroLithium Balkans gets out of the territory of city of Valjevo. As they have not done so, only one thing is left for us , citizens. And that is to self-organise, us citizens, and kick them out of the territory of our town.’
3. Various of people taking eggs
4. Various of eggs being thrown
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mirjana Kovacevic, protester, resident of Valjevo:
++SOUNDBITE IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
"We will not let them destroy our children. They will not dig their mine here, even if the fight cost us our lives. They will not dig."
6. Wide of egg on street and building
7. Worker inside building
14. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Angry protesters on Tuesday threw hundreds of eggs at the headquarters of a lithium mining company that has been granted exploration rights in Serbia.
Residents of Valjevo have been holding repeated protests against EuroLithium Balkans’ mine exploration in the vicinity of this western Serbian town.
Large deposits of lithium, used in electric cars, have been found in several farming areas in Western Serbia.
Organisers of the protest say that they will not hold peaceful rallies any more and that they will take action against the company.
They say they won’t allow potentially environmentally harmful lithium mines to be opened in western Serbia.
"We really don’t have a choice. This is a question of life for us. Our survival. So we have to fight," said organiser Branko Ivkovic.
AP video by Almir Alic
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