The last stage of the student march to Kragujevac started this morning. On Friday, residents of Niš, Novosibirsk, Belgrade and young people from Western Serbia will cross the last kilometers, and in Kragujevac, a festive welcome is being prepared for them.
The students who walked from three directions to Kragujevac should arrive in that city around 19.30:XNUMX tonight, where they will take part in the big rally "Let's meet at Sretenje" on Saturday.
Photo: Zoran Mrđa/FoNetStudent march to Kragujevac
The students and citizens of Kragujevac will organize a festive reception for the students, participants of the march, on Freedom Square.
During the day, a protest is held in Niš in front of the Basic Court, while in Belgrade, a group of citizens gathers in front of the Church of St. Sava and will run to Kragujevac.
Students from Niš have so far walked the longest route. They are on Thursday evening arrived in Jagodina, from where they will continue on Friday. After 40 kilometers of walking, they were treated to fireworks in Jagodina, and then the column headed towards the city center, where dinner and accommodation were organized for them in the gymnasium and classrooms of the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences.
The students were also awaited by a team of doctors and physiotherapists, who helped them prepare for the last and also the most difficult part of their march to Kragujevac.
The residents of Užice and Čačani spent the night in Knić
Students from Čačak, Kraljevo, Novi Pazar and Užice reached Knić Lake in the evening.
A festive welcome with fireworks was arranged for Nima on the bridge over Gružanski jezera.
The students carried the flags of Serbia and the flags of the cities they come from, and the citizens greeted them with shouts of "Serbia is our country", "No one must divide us" and "Uprising, uprising".
They walked 40 kilometers during the first day, and they still had 25 kilometers to go to Kragujevac.
Relay marathon from Belgrade
About twenty students of the University of Belgrade gathered in front of the Church of St. Sava, from where they started the "relay ultramarathon" to Kragujevac in order to join their colleagues in tomorrow's "uprising".
The plan is to arrive in the evening. They will run in five groups, and the relay will take turns, they say, at five kilometers so that everyone can endure the route to the end.
During that time, their colleagues who set out on foot from Belgrade two days ago spent the previous night in Čumić. The locals welcomed the students with fireworks and the song "Far Away", who entered the village singing "March on the Drina".
Protest program in Kragujevac
The big meeting is about to begin at 9 am on Saturday, on Lepenički Boulevard.
The students published the complete timetable of the protest and all planned activities on their Instagram account.
Photo: Miki Jevtović / FonetWELCOME BOARD: Students of the University of Kragujevac
An exhibition of blockade material, collection of money for children suffering from cancer, as well as various sports activities are planned.
From 11.52 a fifteen-minute tribute to the victims of the tragedy in Novi Sad will be held.
After that, a day filled with various creative contents is expected. Around 20:XNUMX p.m., students' monologues and songs will be read on stage, and the actors of the Princely-Serbian ensemble will perform.
The protest ends seven minutes after midnight, after another tribute to the victims of the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad.
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