One hundred days from the station's construction disaster in the new orchard, the protesters blocked the bridge in Belgrade. The anti -government protest is the answer that – as its organizers say – “no one was held responsible for the death of 15 people.” According to protesters, the tragedy occurred by neglect and corruption.
On the hundredth day of the construction disaster at the railway station in Nowy Sad, the protesters called by students blocked several roads in the largest cities on Sunday Serbia and one of the bridges in Belgrade, which is part of the motorway passing through the capital.
“We insist that the competent institutions take responsibility”
A wave of protests transfers from the disaster through Serbia, whose participants accuse the authorities of bringing to a tragedy through corruption and neglect.
On Sunday, students and the inhabitants of Belgrade supporting them from 11 Until the evening they blocked the Gazelle bridge on the Sawa River.
“100 days have passed since the tragedy in the new orchard and so far no one has been held responsible for the death of 15 people. We insist that the appropriate institutions would take responsibility for this tragedy,” the students of the Agricultural Faculty wrote on Instagram who organized a protest.
Students marched from under their faculty to the bridge next to the tractors, which were then used to set the lock, and to protect the procession of police cars. A banner was carried at the march with the names of people who died in an accident at the station in Nowy Sad.
Anti -government protests in Serbia
At 11.52, about which part of the roof of the station collapsed on November 1, there was a 15-minute silence on the bridge, before which the names of the dead were read. Students threw 15 pink into the river to commemorate the victims.
Three intersections in the city center were blocked in the new orchard for three hours. The protest was attended, among others Students, farmers, motorcyclists. After the blockades, the organizers, as during most of their actions, cleaned the blocked streets.
The blockade was also organized by students of the University of Niche in the south of Serbia. The protesters blocked the entrance to the highway leading to Belgrade.
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On Sunday morning, four students and one student from the Serbia Kragujevca in the center of Serbia ran out on the 115-kilometer route to Belgrade to symbolically give the capital students an invitation to a protest organized in their city on February 15, when the State Day is celebrated in Serbia. President Aleksandar Vuczić announced an organization of rally in a new orchard on this day.
Vuczić, responding to A constant wave of protests across the countrythis week he began a series of visits and meetings with his supporters in smaller cities of the country. On Saturday, during one of the journeys, from the car in which he was driving, a circle fell off. The most important politicians in the country emphasized that the incident “must be taken seriously”, and tabloids close to the power accused him of demonstrators. Sam himself called to “unnecessarily blow the topic”.
Organizing protests and blocking over 60 university faculties, students demand disclosure of all contracts related to the renovation of the station in a new orchard, punish guilty attacks on demonstrators, dismissing allegations against protests and increasing by 20 percent. budget expenditure on higher education.
Disaster of the station in Nowy Sad
November 1 In the new orchard in the north of Serbia, part of the roof of the train station collapsed. 15 people were killed and several dozen were injured.
The moment of collapsing the roof of the station in the new orchard in the north of Serbia Reuters
When the front of the roof collapses, many people sat on the benches below. Witnesses said that at the time of the accident there were students returning home in the surrounding towns.
The opposition at the local and central level of Serbia immediately after the tragedy called for an urgent investigation and thoroughly examining the reconstruction works. These groups accused the authority in the city and in the state of neglect that led to an accident. As a consequence of the tragedy, the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Serbia Goran Vesić has resigned.
The railway station in Nowy Sad was officially opened in July, after a three -year reconstruction. The CRIC & CCCC Consortium was responsible for the renovation. The reason for the collapse of the roof of the station is examined by the prosecutor's office.
Source of the main photo: EPA/Andrej Cukic