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(28 Jan 2025)
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Belgrade, Serbia - 28 January 2025
1. Various of students protesting, blocking intersection
2. Student waving Serbian flag
3. Students in the street
4. Banner depicting hand painted in red
5. Students in street
6. Various of students waving at cars driving by
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mateja (no last name given), student protester:
”I honestly hope that all the requests will be fulfilled. The (Serbian) president spoke last night and we can assume his good will (means) that requests will be fulfilled.”
8. Students on bridge at the intersection

STORYLINE:
Serbia's striking university students on Tuesday ended a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital Belgrade.

Serbian farmers on tractors and thousands of citizens joined the blockade which began on Monday that followed weeks of protests demanding accountability over the deadly canopy collapse in November that killed 15 people in the northern city of Novi Sad.

In an attempt to defuse tensions, Vucic, Vucevic and Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic on Monday evening urged dialogue with the students, who have garnered widespread support from all walks of life in Serbia with their call for justice and accountability.

Students in the past have refused to meet with Vucic, saying the president is not entitled by the constitution to hold talks with them.

Vucic has faced accusations of curbing democratic freedoms despite formally seeking European Union membership for Serbia.

He has accused the students of working for unspecified foreign powers to oust the government. 

 On Tuesday Vucevic said he was stepping down, stating that his resignation was aimed at lowering tensions in Serbia..

AP video shot by Ivana Bzganovic

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