
University students in Belgrade and Nis staged parallel gatherings on Sunday, continuing the protests launched over the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1.
The gathering in Belgrade was held in front of the Serbian Constitutional Court, starting with what has become the traditional 15 minutes of silence for the victims of the Novi Sad tragedy and continuing with a reading of cases of violations of the constitution by the authorities. That was followed by whistling, shouting and banging while a group of students stood in front of the court building with white blindfolds to show that justice should be blind to any influence.
In the southern city of Nis, students blocked two major intersections, stood in silence and then marched to the Nis University headquarters to unfurl a banner saying Protest work stop (in Serbian one of the words included the word USTAV – constitution).
Assessments of the size of the crowd varied from the Archive of Public Gatherings NGO saying 28,000 people were present and President Aleksandar Vucic telling the pro-regime TV Pink that there were 13,000. “There were more than 12,000 people at the protest, the highest estimate is 13,700. That is a respectable number. They voiced some of their views and that is that,” Vucic said in a live appearance on TV Pink’s main evening news.
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