(2 Feb 2025)
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Novi Sad, Serbia – 2 February 2025
1. Wide of blocked freedom bridge, tractors on the road
2. Students on blocked bridge
3. Students waking up after spending the night in tents ++SHORT SHOT++
4. Wide of tents
5. Students around camp fire
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Jug Maslorovic, student from Belgrade:
"I came in support of my colleagues. I swear to God, it was a very cold night. It was around 2 degrees Celsius, but also humid, very humid. It was all wet inside our tent. You lie down, you get up, again all wet."
7. Students holding up student ID’s
8. Close of student holding student ID
9. Students around tents
10. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Lucija Maslakovic, student from Belgrade:
“Well, the only way to end this (protest) is that our all demands are met. I expect this to happen. The night went fine, there were no incidents. It was not so cold for me. There was such a positive energy, lot of people. We expect all the best.”
11. Wide of tents
12. Students around tents
13. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Matija Jerotic, student from Novi Sad:
“So yes, let’s see what is going to happen. We have collected our tents, the decision will be made later, but we do expect our demands to be fulfilled as soon as possible. If they don’t fulfil our conditions – what are we going to do? We will make more blockades again.“
14. Students around tents
15. Mid of tents
16. Students sleeping on ground
17. Wide of tents
STORYLINE:
Serbian students on Sunday led an overnight bridge blockade in the northern city of Novi Sad, as part of their growing anti-government movement demanding major changes in the Balkan country.
Dozens of farmers parked their tractors by the Most Slobode, or Freedom Bridge, over Danube river, saying they want to guard the students from potential attacks by sympathizers of Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
Novi Sad residents provided tea and coffee, pancakes, pastry or cooked food to the students who spent the night in tents.
To pass the time overnight, the students played basketball and volleyball, listened to music, played chess or card games.
In the morning, they could be seen clearing the garbage ahead of more protests.
Hundreds had walked from Belgrade to Novi Sad for two days ahead of the blockades.
"We do expect our demands to be fulfilled as soon as possible. If they don’t fulfil our conditions – what are we going to do? We will make more blockades again," said one student.
University students in Serbia are leading a massive anti-graft movement that was triggered three months ago by a deadly collapse of a concrete canopy at the central train station in Novi Sad.
Many in Serbia believe that the collapse was essentially caused by government corruption in a large infrastructure project with Chinese state companies.
Daily protests throughout Serbia have developed into a major challenge for President Vucic.
The student-led movement already forced the resignation of Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and his government earlier this week.
The student protest has struck a cord in graft-plagued Serbia where few citizens feel that state institutions, which are firmly under populist control, are working in the public’s interest.
AP video by Vojislav Stjepanovic
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