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Two opposed groups ushered in the New Year on two neighboring squares in central Belgrade, one at a concert organized by the city authorities and the other led by students observing the daily memorial protest in silence.
Belgrade University students gathered along with a large number of members of the public in the park outside the Serbian Presidency building and then marched to the central Students’ Square for the 15 Minutes of Silence protest in memory of the people killed in the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1. The protest is held daily at 11:52 am, the time the awning collapsed, and was moved to just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. The crowd in the packed square observed the protest and then just walked away.
A similar nighttime protest was held earlier in December at Slavija Square and was the first nighttime memorial with mobile phones raised up with the lights on.
Earlier, the students said there was nothing to celebrate and raised a banner across a major intersection which said No New, You Still Owe Us for the Old (year).
The students and their supporters were forced to march around the central Republic Square where a concert was organized for a much smaller crowd of people, allegedly all supporters of the authorities. Garbage trucks and dumpsters were placed to block streets leading to Republic Square along with security fences and guards. There was a relatively small police presence.
The authorities also organized fireworks at the Belgrade Waterfront complex which could be heard across central Belgrade.
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