Serbia’s striking university students have started a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital Belgrade, stepping up pressure on the populist authorities over a deadly canopy collapse in November that killed 15 people.
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A woman raises a red glove symbolizing blood during a student-led 24 hour block on an intersection to protest the deaths of 15 people killed in the November collapse of a train station canopy, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. People take part in a student-led 24 hour block on an intersection to protest the deaths of 15 people killed in the November collapse of a train station canopy, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.
Serbian farmers on tractors and thousands of citizens joined the blockade that followed weeks of protests demanding accountability of theA campaign of street demonstrations has posed the biggest challenge in years to the populist government’s firm grip on power in Serbia., Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and Parliament Spaker Ana Brnabic are set later on Monday to announce “important decisions” about the situation, the state RTS television said.
Some students played volleyball, others sat down on blankets on the pavement or walked around on a warm day. The students also held a daily 15-minute commemoration silence at 11.52, the exact same time when the canopy at a train station in Novi Sad crashed down on Nov. 1.against 13 people, including a government minister and several state officials.
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