(20 Dec 2024)
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Belgrade, Serbia – 20 December 2024
1. People blocking the street
2. Students standing on the street holding banners
3. Banner reading (Serbian): "Responsibility, not (school) holiday"
4. Students standing, holding banners
5. Various of people standing, some holding flags and banners
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Luka Vuksanovic, student:
"Our requests have not been fulfilled. Full documents (related to the railway station renovation) have not been published, people who should be prosecuted have not been. And our goal is and will be that those requests are fulfilled and nothing else."
7. Students standing on the street, holding banners
8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Uros Jovanovic, student:
"The requests have not been fulfilled, and that is clear. The requests have not been met, whatever those who are in power and other officials say. The protests will continue until they fulfill all the requests."
9. Zoom-out from banner showing hand in red color hanging on the university building and students standing on the street
10. People walking past the university building
11. Students entering university
12. Banners including one with red hand imprints
13. Students seen through window inside university
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Serbian students and others briefly blocked traffic throughout the country Friday as political tensions continue to simmer following last month’s collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people.
The 15-minute traffic blockades have been held every Friday at 11:52 a.m., the exact time on Nov. 1 when tons of concrete came crashing down on people standing underneath outside a railway station building in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Initially, 14 people died and three suffered injuries.
Another person died later in hospital.
"Our requests have not been fulfilled. Full documents (related to the railway station renovation) have not been published, people who should be prosecuted have not been," said Luka Vuksanovic, a student.
Separately, Serbia’s government extended school winter holidays by starting them nearly a week earlier as its continues to grapple with widening student protests challenging the rule of populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
Classes at universities throughout the Balkan country have been suspended for weeks with students camping inside their faculty buildings.
In recent days, high school students have been increasingly joining the movement.
Persistent protests reflect broader dissatisfaction with the growingly autocratic rule of Vucic, reflecting public demands for democratic changes.
Serbia is formally seeking European Union entry but Vucic has faced accusations of curbing rather than advancing democratic freedoms.
AP Video by Ivana Bzganovic
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