Belgrade student filmmakers denied claims by a pro-regime tabloid that the incidents with cars at protests were staged.

The Informer tabloid, one of the fiercest defenders of the Vucic regime, said that it had “access to a shocking video which sheds completely new light on the traffic incidents during the so-called student protests across Serbia”.

The Belgrade Arts Academy students started filming a docudrama about the student protests a month ago. They said their idea was to make an homage to the people who lost their lives in the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad Railway Station and their fellow students who were beaten up or rund down by drivers. They recorded a scene in Kragujevac in a side street away from the protest in that city. Pro-regime media published their video accusing the filmmakers of “faking a traffic incident at the student blockades”.

The student filmmakers said that those media took the video out of context to spin a narrative. A statement said that the video depicting a car-related incident at a protest was aired by the pro-regime TV Pink and the TV Prva, Informer and B92 portals. “Those videos were recorded during the making of a film by final year movie direction students at Belgrade Arts University which used extras and actors, Arts University Students and students from other colleges,” it said.