SERBIA ERUPTS IN PROTESTS!! Students Take To The Streets
Thousands, including students, pupils, and citizens, converged in the southern city at 6 PM.
Serbia saw a massive protest unfold today in Niš, escalating a four-month-long movement sparked by the November 2024 Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse that killed 15 people. Thousands, including students, pupils, and citizens, converged in the southern city at 6 PM, capping a five-day march from various parts of Serbia. Images and videos have been released with columns of bikers and cars clogging the Belgrade-Niš highway, demonstrators waving Serbian flags and Orthodox symbols in a unified stand against government corruption.
The protest, one of the largest since the movement began, reflects growing outrage over perceived government negligence and lack of accountability for the Novi Sad disaster, widely blamed on shoddy construction linked to a Chinese-led project.
Students, who have led the charge since November, demand transparency in public project records, justice for the victims, and an end to charges against demonstrators. Today’s rally in Niš saw broad participation, with posts on social media noting a defiant public fed up with President Aleksandar Vučić’s administration and alleged EU-USAID influence.
Vučić, facing his toughest challenge yet, has dismissed the protests as foreign-backed, a narrative echoed by pro-government voices. Despite Prime Minister Miloš Vučević’s January resignation and 13 indictments, the movement persists, with Niš marking a new flashpoint.
