(1 Feb 2025)
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Novi Sad, Serbia – 01 February 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of students lighting flares
2. Mid of flares at protest
3. Wide of protest
4. Mid of students with lit up phones
5. Close of students holding lit up phones
6. Mid of people holding lit up phones
7. Close of lit up phone
8. Mid of moon
9. Close of woman blowing whistle
10. Various of protest
11. Mid of women blowing whistles
12. Various of people playing volleyball
13. Close of girl with whistle
14. People playing volleyball
15. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) no name given, sports student in Belgrade:
"I am just thrilled with what is happening here. Students have gathered in a sporting way. This is how we (sports students) are fighting against injustice. This volleyball means that we want to crush that corruption in a most beautiful way, and that’s it.”
16. Students playing volleyball
17. Wide of protest
18. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) no name given, student from southern town of Nis:
”My feelings are mixed. My brother is studying in Novi Sad, and I’m studying in Belgrade. When I see how many of my colleagues from Belgrade came here today to support our colleagues in Novi Sad – my heart is just full of joy. We were crying as we were crossing the red carpet (meeting point at the bridge) and we saw what really humanity means. Only if we are together and united – we can win over this horrible evil that sweeps through our country for past 13 years. I think we are using civilized and proud ways to show that citizens are finally awake and that there is hope again that we can create again a civilized country.”
19. Various of balloons in the sky
STORYLINE:
Serbia’s students led a mass protest and blocked bridges over the River Danube in the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday, drawing tens of thousands into the streets to express their anger with the country’s populist leadership and to call for change.
Saturday marked three months since a huge concrete canopy at Novi Sad’s main railway station collapsed, killing 15 people. The crash on Nov. 1 sparked a wide anti-corruption movement and months of student-led street protests.
Many in Serbia believe that the collapse was essentially caused by government corruption in a large infrastructure project with Chinese state companies.
Tens of thousands of people converged on Novi Sad for the blockades, dubbed “Three Months — Three Bridges.” One of the blockades is set to extend until Sunday.
As the blockades started, entire bridges and the streets around them were flooded with people, while many more stood on the riverbanks below. Self-appointed student guards had to control the number of people walking on the bridges for security reasons.
One student from southern town of Nis who took part in the protest said her "heart is just full of joy," adding that the demonstrations have brought a new hope to "create again a civilized country."
Roads into the city were clogged with cars ahead of the rally as people tried to reach Novi Sad from Belgrade and other Serbian cities.
University students have taken a leading role in the protests that have developed into the most serious challenge in years to the country’s powerful populist leader, President Aleksandar Vucic.
Vucic has accused students and other protesters of working for foreign intelligence services to oust him from power, while at the same time offering concessions and talks and issuing veiled threats by saying that his supporters’ “patience is running out.”
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