
Thousands of people across Serbia took to the streets at the invitation of the ProGlas civic initiative to show support for protesting students and their demands on Friday.
University students, joined by high school seniors, have been protesting for about 2 months, demanding accountability for the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a concrete awning at the recently reconstructed Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1. Friday’s mass protests come a day after a Belgrade law school student was seriously injured when a driver rammed through protesters standing in silence for the daily 15 Minutes of Silence memorial.
ProGlas, a civic initiative formed by university professors, actors, journalists and other prominent public figures, called for mass protests across the country not just in university centres. The initiative called the public to stand in silence in a show of support for the students. It said that “the regime has been trying to discredit the students using lies, spins, intimidation and assaults since the start of the protest”.
The crowds standing in silence were joined by teachers and farmers who blocked the Belgrade-Vrsac-Timisoara road in eastern Vojvodina.
Opposition councillors in Novi Sad tried to take over City Hall but were thrown out by a strong police force who were later reinforced by a Gendarmerie unit.
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