After Novi Pazar, it was the turn of Kraljevo, where a sixteen-hour student protest was held on April 16 for the same number of victims who died in the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad.
The sixteen-hour protest in Kraljevo officially ended at 21.16:XNUMX p.m. after a sixteen-minute silence.
While in Belgrade they block the building public service media RTS, and while they previously blocked RTV, au Strasbourg they visit institutions, and students are in Kraljev organized a sixteen-hour protest under the slogan "Pump, pump Ibar water".
Student Sonja Ponjavić addressed the crowd.
"I didn't think of a speech, because yesterday I was walking from the Vrnjačka spa. There was no time, but it was a beautiful welcome. I want to thank everyone for coming here," she said.
On January 16, before the start of delivering mail to the victims, she was run over by a car on the sidewalk and carried on the roof, during which she was seriously injured and transported to the Emergency Center.
"We all know that we are here tonight, we all have the same goal, no matter what - we have to move on, there is no going back," she said.
She thanked everyone who was with her.
"We all belong here", she added and especially thanked the educators for their courage.
The crowd shouted "Sonja, we love you".
All intersections in Kraljevo, the city through which the Ibar River flows, have been blocked since eight o'clock in the morning when the protest began. The city administration building was also blocked.
Gori Kraljevo pic.twitter.com/tALCFPrQLL
— Charlie (@sviostaliija) April 16, 2025
This created a "ring" around Kraljevo, in which the protest, according to announcements, will last until midnight.
As the N1 reporter reported, a fence was erected in front of the City Administration building in Kraljevo, and veterans of the 63rd Parachute Brigade of the Serbian Army are also in front.
"Even though it's a working day, there are already a lot of people on the streets and we expect a large number of citizens in the afternoon, after working hours," Predrag Voštinić, an activist of the Local Front from Kraljevo, told "Vreme".
After protests in university centers, students decided to organize a large gathering in Kraljevo, a city where there is no faculty.
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"We need to show that students can influence places that don't have universities. Students come from these places and by visiting and talking to people they bring a positive atmosphere. This means more to the people of Kraljevo than to students who are mobile media in the absence of objective reporting by electronic media," says Voštinić.
MATF is coming to Kraljevo!
Everyone who comes with us - see you!
Everyone who doesn't come - DIRECTION OF RTS!🚨 pic.twitter.com/aEzaT4kcIW— Blockade MATF (@blokadamatf) April 16, 2025
To Kraljevo by bicycle and on foot
According to the already established matrix, the students also arrived in Kraljevo, the ninth largest city in Serbia, on foot and by bicycle.
Pedestrians and cyclists were welcomed on Tuesday (April 15) by a large number of citizens, with a red carpet, bread and salt. They were given a festive reception at the Square of Serbian Warriors, where a large number of citizens and educators gathered to support the students in their struggle to fulfill their demands.
"Tonight was magnificent," says Voštinić. "These are thousands of people that Kraljevo has not seen. I saw people last night that I haven't seen in years. They are encouraged that something good is happening in the city. People want to be on the side of the students."
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