Thousands block key motorway in Serbian capital during student-led protests

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Thousands block key motorway in Serbian capital during student-led protests
BelgradeAleksandar VucicProtests And Demonstrations
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Thousands of people have blocked traffic at a key motorway intersection in Serbia’s capital during student-led street protests over the collapse of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people more than two months ago.

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Protesters have staged almost daily street demonstrations to demand accountability over the Nov. 1 crash at a railway station building in the northern city of Novi Sad.Instead of partying, thousands turn New Year celebration into anti-government protest in SerbiaSerbia’s prosecutor charges 13 in a deadly canopy fall that fueled mass protests, have been held daily for the victims at 11.52a.m., the exact time when the canopy crashed.

But he has also responded to the growing anti-corruption movement by offering cheap loans to students and claiming that their demands have been fulfilled. Though Vucic has formally said he would lead Serbia to join the European Union, the Serbian strongman has faced accusations of diminishing democratic freedoms in the Balkan nation rather than advancing them during his past decade in power.

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