Students involved in the faculty blockade in Novi Sad announced that today’s protest will begin with a gathering at 12:30 PM in the Campus, their final destination in the city is the train station, after which they will travel at 3:00 PM to Bačka Palanka, where they will participate in the protest there.
Portal 021 states that, on the way from the Campus to the train station, the gathered people will pass by the Stari Grad police station, the Banovina building, and then the prosecutor’s office, after which they are scheduled to stop at the police administration in Kralja Petra I Street.
The protest in Bačka Palanka is being organized due to, as they stated yesterday, electoral irregularities in Sečanj, Negotin, and Mionica, attacks on observers, journalists, and citizens, as well as the police’s failure to react.
They are also organizing the protest because the Gendarmerie defended supporters of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in “Ćaciland,” the tent settlement of government supporters in the center of Belgrade, while they played inappropriate music directed at Dijana Hrka, the mother of one of the victims of the canopy collapse.
Another reason for the protest is that the police in Bačka Palanka and Vrbas protected SNS supporters while they threw stones, bottles, and pyrotechnics at the gathered citizens—after which massive protests began across Serbia.
At the protest on March 15 in Belgrade, as the students stated in their call on social media, a sonic weapon was used during the honoring of the victims of the canopy collapse in front of the Novi Sad train station.
“But we don’t have a sonic cannon, or maybe we do, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) hasn’t decided yet. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivica Dačić, is still in office. There is no institutional responsibility in Serbia for those who violate human rights,” the students stated.
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