(8 Mar 2025)
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Belgrade – 8 March 2025
1. Woman talking on megaphone, UPSOUND (Serbian) “ March 8 – Women, Women!”
2. Protesters chanting, UPSOUND (Serbian)“Women, Women!”
3. Women holding roses
4. Pan of protest
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Jadranka (no last name given), Belgrade resident:
”I am here to support students. I have spent decades on the streets protesting, and there has not been any change. Now I hope it will be successful.”
6. Students holding banner reading (Serbian) “There is no revolution without women”
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Slavica Djajic, Belgrade resident:
”I am here to support all women around the world, all mothers and fighters, and students of course.”
8. Banner reading (Serbian) "Students will change the world”
9. Pan of protesters standing in silence to pay respect for victims and Novi Sad and four women killed in domestic violence this year
10. Various of protesters standing in silence some holding roses
11. Pan of protesters standing in silence
12. Various of protesters marching
STORYLINE:
Female students led street protests against corruption in Serbia on Saturday, marking International Women’s Day and demonstrating against widespread violence targeting women in the Balkan country.
University students in Serbia are leading almost daily protests as part of a nationwide anti-graft movement that started after a concrete canopy crashed down in November at a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad.
The incident killed 15 people and triggered protests against the populist government of President Aleksandar Vucic.
Many in Serbia believe that the huge concrete construction fell down because of poor renovation work fueled by government corruption.
Demonstrations have become a challenge to the populist government of President Aleksandar Vucic.
The students on Saturday carried banners reading “Women in front rows” at the head of the march, which passed through central streets in Belgrade and continued to the state prosecutor’s office.
The protesters then held 19 minutes of silence instead 15 held otherwise for the victims of the canopy crash.
The additional four minutes were dedicated to the four women killed in domestic violence this year.
Serbia’s university students behind the protests have insisted on full accountability in the canopy fall, which has garnered widespread support among Serbia’s citizens who are largely disillusioned with politicians and have lost trust in state institutions.
Student-led rallies have drawn tens of thousands of people, possibly becoming the largest ever in Serbia which has a long history of anti-government protests.
Populist Vucic has described the protests as a Western-orchestrated ploy to oust him from power.
AP video by Ivana Bzganovic
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