Beatings, mass arrests, action of police special units: what happened on the night between Wednesday and Thursday on the streets across Serbia
During the evening and night, on the evening of July 2 and in the early morning hours of July 3, the police she brought more students and citizens who block it city streets by Serbia.
As the Ministry of Interior announced, during the previous night the police registered a total of 1297 persons, while 79 persons were "brought to the official premises".
"Out of that, 72 people were brought because of committed misdemeanors, and seven people because of the existence of grounds for suspicion that they violated the provisions of the Criminal Code and committed criminal acts with their actions," stated the statement of the MUP.
The incidents were recorded in Belgrade, Niš, Novi Pazar and Novi Sad, where a certain number of persons were detained for disturbing public order and peace and committing criminal acts, according to the announcement.
How was the night in Belgrade?
The most chaotic was at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where the police, according to eyewitnesses, beat, tied and detained students.
Several students and citizens who blocked the intersection of Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra and Beogradska Street were slightly injured half an hour after midnight during the intervention of the police in front of that faculty, it was confirmed to FoNet.
As the students of the Faculty of Law stated, the police tried to knock down and snatch the phones from the hands of students and citizens who were standing in front of the faculty building.
RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FACULTY OF LAW, THE POLICE ARE ATTACKING STUDENTS AND SCANNING THE ENTRANCE TO THE FACULTY❗️❗️❗️
Colleagues were sitting quietly, the police arrived in vehicles at the intersection and ran into the students!!! pic.twitter.com/bi2WPMT5vG
— Legal in the Block (@blokadapravni) July 2, 2025
According to the testimony of the students, the police beat the students and citizens and knocked them to the street. After that, they retreated to the faculty building.
The police beat the closed doors of the college with batons and tried to enter the building.
The MUP announced that the police did not enter the premises of the faculty at any time, and that 23 people were detained.
Professor Biljana Stojković was also married
Professor Biljana Stojković, a member of the Presidency of the Democratic Party and a former candidate for President of the Republic of Serbia, was among those detained, the Democratic Party announced.
Professor Biljana Stojković, member of the Presidency of the Democratic Party and former candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Serbia, was arrested tonight during a civil protest. pic.twitter.com/1CRMbJCnsD
— Democratic Party (@democrats) July 2, 2025
Her husband, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine Oliver Stojković, told FoNet on Thursday morning that she was released from the police station and that a misdemeanor charge will be filed against her.
Information about the arrests of their students is circulating on the social network profiles of the blocked faculties.
The students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in the blockade announced that their colleagues and friends were arrested, as well as that they were later released from detention, and that one of them was transferred to the Military Medical Academy (MMA).
— FDU in blockade (@sviublokade_fdu) July 3, 2025
The students of the Faculty of Mathematics announced that one of their colleagues was detained and transferred to the Novi Beograd Police Station, from where he should be transported to the November 29 Police Station on Thursday morning. The students called for a gathering in front of PS Novi Beograd from nine o'clock.
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One student of the Faculty of Economics was also detained, it was announced on the social networks of the students of that faculty in the blockade.
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Four students at the Military Medical Academy
Professor of the Faculty of Medicine, Oliver Stojković, told FoNet that four students, who after the intervention of the police were detained in front of the Faculty of Law, were transported to the Academy of Medical Sciences, and one of them has a broken collarbone and a possible rib fracture.
"I have heard from the injured boy and his mother, the collarbone is definitely broken, and we are waiting for the recordings to be read to see if there was a rib fracture," said Stojković.
Intervention at Vračar
There were also police interventions in front of the Vračar police station in Radoslava Grujića Street and the surrounding streets.
During the evening, citizens and students were gathered there, waiting for the police to release several detainees, including minors, who were arrested earlier in the evening at roadblocks in Njegoševa Street and near the Faculty of Law.
After the arrested minors were released, the adults who were taken into custody, as the gathered were told, were taken to the judge on duty at the Misdemeanor Court in Ustanička. After they were taken away, members of the gendarmerie pushed the crowd in front of the station, who at one point intervened more forcefully using batons.
Incidents in Ustanička and Vojislav Ilić
After midnight, police officers in full gear to break up demonstrations attacked the citizens at the fourth blockade in a row with hundreds of participants at the corner of Ustančka and Vojislav Ilić Street.
The blockade was peaceful, but half an hour after midnight several dozen policemen appeared in full gear to break up the demonstrations, the citizens took cover from the roadway to the sidewalk, and the policemen began to chase them through the surrounding streets. Two cannon shots were also heard.
Novi Sad and Nis
In Novi Sad, too, it was stormy, and the police, in equipment for breaking up demonstrations, tried to break up the blockade near the Futoška market. One girl fell ill on that occasion, and according to reports from social networks, she experienced an epileptic attack.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that members of the Gendarmerie in Novi Sad, while suppressing people who were blocking traffic in Cara Lazar Boulevard in Novi Sad, provided all necessary assistance to a young woman who fell ill on the spot.
So far, there is no information on how many people have been detained.
Mladić MZ, who was taken into custody last night on Nemanjić Boulevard, near the blocked roundabout, is currently in the University Clinical Center due to injuries sustained during the brutal treatment of the police during the detention, the informal group of students in the blockade in Nis announced early this morning.
"During the apprehension of the young man, four policemen beat him with batons and fists, injuring his ribs. In addition, two policemen chased his girlfriend, a first-year student at the Metropolitan University, and hit her repeatedly with a baton on the back, but she managed to escape," NGS said.
The students in the blockade announced late last night that they received information from a colleague from the Faculty of Sports and Physical Education that the policemen also beat his sister in an attempt to detain her.
They stated that the police, in full gear to break up demonstrations, detained several students and citizens late last night and into the night.
So far, the Niš Police Department has not disclosed any information about arrests or filing of charges against protest participants since the start of the civil disobedience action on June 29, when intersections and roundabouts are blocked in the evening hours.
Response of the students in the blockade
"In the evening behind us, we are witnessing an unprecedented repression and endangerment of the university and its principles. We are not giving up, you will hear our answer soon!", announced the students in the blockade.
They again called for a mass work stoppage.
❗️IMPORTANT❗️
The action planned for today at 7:30 is postponed!
In the evening behind us, we witnessed an unprecedented repression and endangerment of the university and its principles.
We are not giving up, you will just HEAR our answer!
More information coming soon.
Students and citizens in solidarity!
— Studenti_U_Blokade (@studentblokade) July 3, 2025
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