Serbian protesters rally against President Aleksandar Vucic's government

(22 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade, Serbia - 22 December 2024
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1. Various top shots of the protest

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2. People at the protest
3. Students arriving with banners
4. Students holding banner reading ( Serbian) "Your hands are bloody”
5. Students holding banner reading ( Serbian) “Belgrade is the world again”
6. Students walking with banners and signs
7. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Tanja (no last name given), protester:
"Today we are here to defend student’s positions and our position in general. Everyone is here to say that we have had enough of the silence.”
8. People at the protest
9. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Daniel Glid, protester:
"I have been on the street (protesting) for decades and I thought that it did not make sense anymore (to protest), that I had given up, but then I had to come here to support these young people. If we can help them in any way, I am here.”
10. Various top shots of people at the protest ++ NIGHT SHOT++



STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands streamed into a central square in Serbia’s capital on Sunday for a big rally against populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government, whose tight grip on power has been challenged by weeks of street protests led by university students.

The rally at Belgrade’s Slavija Square, one of the largest in recent years, was called by students and farmer unions.

It was part of a wider movement demanding accountability over the Nov. 1 collapse of a canopy at a railway station in the country’s north that killed 15 people.

Smaller rallies were also held in the cities of Nis and Kragujevac. The rally in Belgrade started with a 15-minute silence for the victims, and later chants of “You have blood on your hands!” were heard.

Many in Serbia blame the collapse on widespread corruption and sloppy work on the railway station building in the city of Novi Sad which was twice renovated in recent years as part of questionable mega projects involving Chinese state companies.

Protesters demand that Vucic and those responsible face justice.

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