Protests across Serbia were held on International Labor Day, when it marked six months since the fall of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad. What happened in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš?
After the students, new "terrorists" - high school students - entered the big protest stage. They walked from Belgrade, Valjevo, Užice, Gornji Milanovac, Šabac, Čačak, Kraljevo, Bajina Bašta to Novi Sad.
My grandfather Josif was 21 in Zagreb, I was 22 in Paris, my daughter was 17 in Budapest. That's why I go to the protests. That's why Joseph went, that's why his descendants also go, luckily there are a lot of us. We are sick of various usurpers and their associated scumbags, thugs and some kind of coterie, clowns and animists--ladies who can never get enough as they take turns like on a tape. Jer - as it was written some 150 years ago in London by that one guy after whom the street in Berlin's Neukölln district is named, where there is an attic apartment where I spent some of the most beautiful and fateful days of my life - society does not consist of individuals, rather, it expresses the sum of mutual relations, relationships in which these individuals find themselves. And that's why it's important how those relationships are established
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The people of Pančevka practically stopped traffic in the entire city with the action called "16 for 16". Pančevo stopped for 16 minutes
Regardless of social circumstances, the role of the festival is to introduce us to another world - believes Aja Jung, director of the Belgrade Game Festival, which was held at the time of noisy and stormy protests.
"People no longer want to participate in blockades and they will not throw eggs and stones at people because they think differently," says the President of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabić.
These are the last days when there is a chance that the great rebellion in Serbia will not pass in vain and without a political result. If it goes that way, the regime will launch an even stronger retaliation
In Niš, the blockade of the bridges near Ureda, near Delta, near Roda, near Dis, as well as the blockade of the Bridge of Youth has ended. All participants of the protest converged on St. Sava Square
Most students want to make changes through street pressure. However, how long can they maintain that pressure, asks the Swiss public service SRF in a report from Belgrade
According to the media, the Socialist Party of Serbia has suspended Branko Ružić from all positions in the party for six months
The dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, Natalija Jovanović, tells Vreme that she was stabbed by the president of the state, Vučić, since he has been conducting an orchestrated hunt for her since the beginning of the blockade in this city. "I can't believe what happened, but when I think about it, I subconsciously expected this, because this repressive and totalitarian regime in its final phase is certainly ready for this."
When one makes even a superficial specification of the scope so far, that is, political and social changes during the winter struggle of citizens for a normal Serbia, things are not bad. It is not an empty optimism. Let's try to sort things out with some logic
On Tuesday, high school students in Belgrade blocked a part of the lane of the Gazela bridge in the direction of New Belgrade for four hours. With the banner "We will play loudly for justice", the high school graduate says that the aim of the blockade is to show the professors that they are not alone in the fight, but also to support the students
The only way to remove Vučić and his followers is through democratic elections. The only way to achieve democratic elections is to create conditions for their holding. The only way to create the conditions is to form some form of transitional government. And that can only be done if everyone unites around that goal
During the three-hour blockade of the Branko bridge, mail was delivered to those who died in 2023 in "Vladislav Ribnikar" Primary School, Dubona and Mali Orašje, as well as in the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad. Educators called on other professions to rebel
Educators who are on strike in primary and secondary schools did not receive their February salary. How did they cope with such repressive measures and who is actually "breaking the backbone to enlighten"
"Direct democracy is the only way in which no one is neglected in the discussion and conclusion, it enables complete transparency and guarantees that the decisions made really correspond to the people", according to the students of the Faculty of Philosophy.
"The police, at the behest of the competent prosecutor's offices, continues intensive work on collecting the necessary information and undertakes operational measures," announced the MUP.
"Those police officers who do not want to protect order and law will be replaced," said the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed out that the people were detained to prevent disruption of public order, but also as a warning that the government will not tolerate chaos and provocations.
Representatives of the authorities condemn the attack on the mayor of Niš, Dragoslav Pavlović, and see it as a colored revolution, the oppositionists point out that the SNS meeting had to be canceled and that the Niš progressives were deliberately exposed as "clay pigeons".
An extra-institutional political network began to be created throughout Serbia. From Wednesday, March 19, citizens started organizing assemblies. What it looked like
The editorial board of RTS thanked the citizens for protesting in front of the headquarters of the public media service
A day after the Government of Serbia fell, part of the parliamentary opposition offered a solution to the current socio-political crisis, namely the formation of a transitional government of popular trust
Protesters took to the streets and university campuses, as well as subway stations, as crowds chanted anti-government slogans, a display of public anger not seen in years.
Everything that goes through my head, and what I think is the most intimate - anger, resentment, but not powerlessness - is now a universal feeling, writes Bojan Savić Ostojić
After that, the citizens secured the car so that there would be no damage. The police detained the driver and passenger, reports Radio 021. Gathering in Novi Sad The protest gathering, to which residents of Novi Sad municipalities came from different directions in several columns, began at 11.52:21 a.m. at the railway station building, exactly at the time when the canopy collapsed six months ago. 16 minutes of silence was held - for the 4904982 victims of the roof collapse and the five victims on the farm near Topola. Students covered billboards with banners about government affairs. As previously announced, speeches were held on the Freedom Bridge. [caption id="attachment_300" align="alignnone" width="XNUMX"]During the protest walk to the Freedom Bridge, the driver tried to drive his car through the column of citizens, but was stopped.#Novi Sad pic.twitter.com/ZdJWauu2JA
- Radio 021 (@ Radio021) May 1, 2025
Arrest of the driver in Novi Sad During the protest march in Novi Sad to the Freedom Bridge, the driver tried to drive his car through the column of citizens, but was stopped.View this post on Instagram
After that, the citizens secured the car so that there would be no damage. The police detained the driver and passenger, reports Radio 021. Gathering in Novi Sad The protest gathering, to which residents of Novi Sad municipalities came from different directions in several columns, began at 11.52:21 a.m. at the railway station building, exactly at the time when the canopy collapsed six months ago. 16 minutes of silence was held - for the 4904982 victims of the roof collapse and the five victims on the farm near Topola. Students covered billboards with banners about government affairs. As previously announced, speeches were held on the Freedom Bridge. [caption id="attachment_300" align="alignnone" width="XNUMX"]During the protest walk to the Freedom Bridge, the driver tried to drive his car through the column of citizens, but was stopped.#Novi Sad pic.twitter.com/ZdJWauu2JA
- Radio 021 (@ Radio021) May 1, 2025
