How students and citizens pumped in They are not, were seen and read by citizens all over region. A large number of media from the surrounding countries either had their own correspondent who called from the south of Serbia, and some reported hour by hour.
Croatia: The government in Serbia is using its neighbor against students
"Pump, pump": Look at the scenes from the streets of the third largest Serbian city, Vučić: Your support is falling..."
This was the title in Croatian Morning paper.
"Simultaneously with the protest in Nis, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić gathered his supporters in several cities in the southeast of Serbia, claiming that support for student protests is declining and said that in Serbia the government will not be elected on the streets," Jutarnji list reported.
Portal Index broadcast the protest day from Niš, and they also wrote about the Student Edict, a document in eight points, with which the students told the authorities that they "want state institutions dedicated to justice and the interests of all citizens, a just society and a system that values knowledge and work, not obedience and silence".
The RTL journalist from Croatia reported that the protests in Serbia are viewed positively, because Croatia is a country that can never organize a protest where more than 10 thousand or maybe 20 thousand people would gather.
"So phenomenologically, what is happening in Serbia is watched with interest because all these student protests are massive," says Katarina Brećić, RTL journalist.
Some Serbian students, originally from Croatia, were given the label of spies, just because of the fact that they also have a passport from this member of the European Union.
"The Croatian authorities rejected those accusations. Every time Croatia is mentioned, it is followed, otherwise all those situations are commented on so that Serbian politics is using Croatia to actually help itself in the situation of those student protests, and that has nothing to do with the truth. It's purely a matter of internal Serbian politics," adds the RTL journalist.
Slovenia: Massiveness and witty messages
The public service of Slovenia has been following the events in Serbia for weeks, and they also reported from the protests in Nis. Massiveness, organization, witty messages, but also concern for the environment, because after every protest the area is cleaned, are some of the impressions that the correspondent of the Slovenian public service singled out from the student protests.
"Students started and a lot of others joined them, and it's interesting from various angles." Of course, it will be even more interesting to follow what will come of all that - pumping, as they say at the protests, what will happen in the end, because I don't know what other solutions there are other than political solutions," says journalist Boštejn Anža's correspondent. RTV Slovenia.
BiH: Iftar for colleagues
Free Bosnia writes that the students in Niš were also supported by their colleagues from Novi Pazar, "and the hosts thanked them with a particularly nice gesture - they organized an iftar for them".
"Around the landscaped grass area on the square, behind the monument to the liberators of Nis, 15 trees were planted with the names of those killed in the tragedy on November 1 last year." Residents of Novi Sad also marked four months since the tragedy at the railway station by laying flowers and holding a 15-minute silence," writes Slobodna Bosna.
"Mass protest in Niš, unreal scenes from the air: A promise to the future and the state...", it says Sarajevo Liberation.
The Student Edict was also adopted during the protests, this paper adds, a document of a specific nature, which was prepared by the students of the University of Niš.
"We, the students and free citizens of Serbia, gathered in the city of Niš, in a city that has witnessed new ideas and changes, in a city that has been a crossroads of history for centuries, and where freedom has always found its way, bring this edict by which we proclaim the values we are fighting for, as a pledge of the future and the state in which we want to live," reads the beginning of this document, reports Oslobođenje.
Montenegro: A promise for the future
Podgorica Vijesti They write that the final part of the protest was attended by a large number of students and citizens from all over Serbia, and after midnight they started cleaning the central city streets, which were filled with protesters all day.
"The students' edict, after which the protest was named, was presented by the students of the University of Nis last evening in the central square and stated that it is a document of a symbolic character that represents a "covenant for the future and the country in which they want to live", reports Vijesti.
