US EditionSerbia youth lead thousands on march for weekend rally marking deadly canopy collapse last year
- A major rally this Saturday will mark the anniversary of the Novi Sad central train station disaster as youth-led protesters oppose President Aleksandar Vucic.
- Believing corruption caused the collapse, demonstrators say victims died due to sloppy Novi Sad train station renovation and demand accountability plus an early parliamentary election to oust President Aleksandar Vucic.
- On Thursday thousands of mainly young protesters began a two-day march from Belgrade, with flag-waving university students leading a 90-kilometer journey as residents cheered.
- Political tensions have increased as charges filed over the disaster await a trial date, while President Aleksandar Vucic brands student-protesters as Western-backed 'terrorists' and the Serbian Progressive Party organizes counterrallies.
- Serbia is formally seeking to join the European Union, but accession is stalled amid Vucic's ties with Russia and China and concerns about democratic freedoms and government corruption.
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Serbians stage mass rally to mark first anniversary of deadly train station collapse
Tens of thousands of Serbians on Saturday demonstrated to mark the first anniversary of a deadly railway station roof collapse that killed 16 people in Novi Sad, the country’s second largest city. The accident sparked a wave of student-led protests against the administration of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
A mass memorial rally is expected in Novi Sad on the first anniversary of the tragedy, attended by thousands of students and their supporters.
A deadly roof collapse sparked massive anti-government protests. A year later, crowds of young people are once again taking to the streets demanding change in a deeply divided Serbia.
One year after the tragic fall of the concrete awning of the Novi Sad railway station, killing sixteen people on 1 November 2024, the mobilization continues in this northern city of Serbia. ...
A year after Serbia's Novi Sad disaster: 'It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year'
Saturday is the one-year anniversary of Serbia's deadly train station collapse — starting waves of student protests against president Aleksandar Vučić that still reverberate. "It is no longer the country it was before 1 November last year", according to one professor of southeastern European history.
The streets against the regime in Serbia: one year of mobilization in review
For a year now, young people in Serbia have been continuing their fight for a democratic society in the face of Aleksandar Vučić's authoritarian regime. On both sides of Serbia, student marches are criss-crossing the country in the direction of Novi Sad to commemorate the collapse of the railway station, responsible for the deaths of 16 people on 1 November 2024. This tragic event triggered a political protest on an unprecedented scale. IVP609 -…
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