The MUP says 6.200, while the Archive of Public Meetings counts 18.000 participants at the May Day protest in front of the Government of Serbia. AJS is therefore seeking answers from the MUP: who in that institution signs incorrect data and for what purpose?
Media blocking cannot block everything. Anger grew, the matter broke, and the students' courage awakened courage in others as well. The progressives are also proud of the fact that they abolished politics and public debate, killed the opposition and conducted only a monologue, self-confidently believing that theirs would burn until dawn. And the pressure cooker was getting hotter and hotter
In a situation where we still do not know whether a sound cannon or something else was used in the crowd on March 15, the President of Serbia continues to count the participants of the rally. Aleksandar Gubaš from the Archives of Public Meetings tells "Vreme" that this is a reflection of his insecurity
It is estimated that at the protest "15. in 15, between 275.000 and 325.000 people attended, the Archive of Public Meetings announced
On Friday evening, the Archive of Public Gatherings announced that one of its founders, Vladimir Nikolić, a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, was detained and then released from the Stari Grad Police Station.
The Archive of Public Assemblies announced that there were 21.000 to 23.000 people at the one-hour SNS rally in Sremska Mitrovica, and that those present at the rally in Kragujevac could not be counted
The archive of public gatherings processed material from the protests and rallies held on January 24 in Belgrade, Niš, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Jagodina. In Novi Sad, the record was equaled from November 2024
At the "Our Right to Know Everything" protest, an average number of 3,15 people per square meter was recorded on more than 10.000 square meters.
The list of the 10 largest outdoor public gatherings in Serbia in 2024 has been published
The archive of public meetings established that between 100.000 and 102.000 people gathered at the protest, which was organized by students at Slavia.
The president of the Archive of Public Meetings, Aleksandar Gubaš, tells "Vreme" that they have tried different software for counting point objects, but that "all of them have a problem with identifying human heads", that they are "not precise" and that errors range from "twenty percent", and sometimes "up to fifty percent". He believes that these software cannot be used until the deviations fall below ten percent
It is technically possible to accurately count all the people in a certain place at a certain moment, but it is pointless because it is impossible to reliably know who is a participant in the protest and who is, say, a plainclothes police officer - this is the comment of the Archives of Public Meetings regarding Vučić's call for precise software
"The number of approximately 18.000 people is not an estimate - but a result, visible and verifiable on every video that was used. We call on the media and the public to demand answers from the MUP: who is the responsible person who, on behalf of the state institution, releases inaccurate information to the public - and with what motive?", asked the Archive. They also added that they are on the site publicmeetings.org available recordings in full resolution that were used to mark and count the May Day protest in front of the Government of Serbia.', title: 'Archive of public meetings: MUP manipulates the number of people present at the protest', pubdate: '2025-05-02 10:43:18', authors: authors, sections: "News", tags: "Archive of public meetings, Ministry of the Interior, Student protests", access_level: access_level, article_type: "news", reader_type: reader_type }; (function (d, s) { var sf = d.createElement(s); sf.type = 'text/javascript'; sf.async = true; sf.src = (('https:' == d.location.protocol) ? 'https://d7d3cf2e81d293050033-3dfc0615b0fd7b49143049256703bfce.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com' : 'http://t.contentinsights.com') + '/stf.js'; var t = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; t.parentNode.insertBefore(sf, t); })(document, 'script'); dataLayer.push({ 'event': 'Pageview', 'pagePath': url, 'pageTitle': 'Archive of public meetings: MUP manipulates the number of people present at the protest', 'pageContent': 'On student and union protest held on May 1 in front of the Government of Serbia, there were 6.200 people, if you ask Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP). On the other hand, Public Meetings Archive (AJS), an association that has been counting gatherings throughout Serbia for years, counted approximately 18.000 people at the same gathering - by directly counting each individual participant. In other words, AJS says that there were almost three times more people at the protest than the official estimate of the MUP. How is it possible that there is such a discrepancy between the two sources? The Archives claim that the MUP is manipulating the numbers. "The MUP claims that there were 6.200 people at today's protest - three times less than the number that AJS accurately documented and made publicly available. AJS, thanks to the ideal recording conditions, used the method of direct counting - each participant was individually marked on the available recordings, without the need to assess the total area of the protest and the average density of people per square meter. The room for error in this kind of counting is reduced to the level of statistical error," the statement said. Archive.Protest in front of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, May 1, 2025, 14:50 p.m. Nemanjina street, part below Kneza Miloša street. pic.twitter.com/FMN4feXzNA
— Arhiv public skupova (@javniskupovi) May 1, 2025
— Arhiv public skupova (@javniskupovi) May 1, 2025They add that the MoI refers to "precise counting software technology" but refuses to show any footage, data or methodology to the public. "He states that their recordings were made only four minutes after those available to AJS, but even those recordings are not available - unlike ours," the AJS statement reads. In subsequent posts, the Archive of Public Meetings attached detailed footage with hand-marked protest participants. They show that each individual participant of the protest is marked.
"The number of approximately 18.000 people is not an estimate - but a result, visible and verifiable on every video that was used. We call on the media and the public to demand answers from the MUP: who is the responsible person who, on behalf of the state institution, releases inaccurate information to the public - and with what motive?", asked the Archive. They also added that they are on the site publicmeetings.org available recordings in full resolution that were used to mark and count the May Day protest in front of the Government of Serbia.', 'pageDate': '2025-05-02 10:43:18', 'pageAuthor': authors, 'visitorType': visitor_type, }); console.log(post_id); console.log('Pushed'); });Protest in front of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, May 1, 2025, 14:50 p.m. Nemanjina street, part below Kneza Miloša street. pic.twitter.com/FMN4feXzNA
— Arhiv public skupova (@javniskupovi) May 1, 2025
