In addition to Novi Sad, commemorative gatherings were held in Belgrade, Sombor, Kraljevo, Niš, Leskovac, Aleksandrovac, Zrenjanin, Kovina, Čačak and Novi Pazar.
Commemorative rallies "29 minutes for 29 victims" were given a post on Friday victims in Novi Sad and killed in Cetinje and Arilje, and the action lasted a minute longer in Novi Sad because the mail was also given to the murdered elementary school student from Zagreb.
In addition to Novi Sad, rallies were held in Belgrade, Sombor, Kraljevo, Niš, Leskovac, Aleksandrovac, Zrenjanin, Kovina, Čačak and Novi Pazar.
Students in Novi Sad unfurled a large red fist banner at the Petrovaradin Fortress and blocked the Varadin Bridge. Before the start of the rally, a man in a BMW car tried to break through the blockade.
Journalist Žarko Bogosavljević announced that there was an incident on the eve of the action, at 11.45:XNUMX a.m., when a black BMW tried to drive through the crowd of students. Citizens and students rushed him, and then the police arrived. The driver fled down the street.
11.45:XNUMX a.m. a black BMW drove through a crowd of students...citizens and students swaddled him...the police arrived later...he ran away down the street #Novi Sad pic.twitter.com/Jf1XIcrgIT
- zarko bogosavljevic (@zarkobns) January 3, 2025
A 15-minute silent meeting was held in front of the building of Radio-television Vojvodina, and the students of Svetina Gymnasium and School of Economics gathered on Slobode Square in Novi Sad.
Support of veteran paratroopers
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Veterans of the 63rd Parachute Brigade in red berets stood in front of the City Administration in Kraljevo on Friday.
Students and citizens of Niš gathered at the intersection near the Basic Court building and with a twenty-nine-minute silence that began at 11.52:XNUMX a.m., they paid their respects to those who died in Novi Sad, Arilje and Cetinje.
On this occasion, the students also carried numerous banners that read, among other things, "This exam has no extra term", "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains" and "Decorated streets, but the people are in the dark".
Dimitrije Glukčević, a student of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, said that the meeting confirms the unity between people.
"We are also here because of the other victims, not only the victims in Novi Sad, because we think that the reasons for people's suffering are quite similar." The society we live in is definitely not a bright picture," Glukčević said.
He added that we live in an age where people cannot live normally and that is why tragedies happen.
According to Glukčević, the students are not giving up on their demands and the faculties of the University of Niš, whose seat is in Niš, are still blocked.
They will be closed for Christmas, he added, but after that students will return to classrooms and amphitheatres.
Protests throughout Serbia
In Zrenjanin, too, tributes were paid to those who died.
More than a dozen graduates of the High School in Čačak stood for 15 minutes in silence on the plateau in front of the school, for the 13th time, for the victims of the fall of the canopy at the Railway Station in Novi Sad. Together with them there were several dozen professors and citizens.
The graduates stated that they will make a decision in the coming days when they will continue gathering in front of the gymnasium.
The action "15 minutes of silence, five minutes of noise" was also held in Sombor. The citizens blocked Stepa Stepanović's Venac in the city center for 20 minutes, and then went on a protest walk to the "Dr. Ružica Rip" Secondary Medical School, where they joined the employees of that school.
The collective of that high school expressed dissatisfaction with the election of the new director, who was appointed on December 30 by decision of the Provincial Secretary, even though the collective of the school gave the majority of votes to another candidate.
A tribute to the victims was also held in Kovin.
The citizens of Leskovac also held a commemorative action "Stop Serbia" in which they paid their respects to those killed at the railway station in Novi Sad and the victims in Arilje and Cetinje. They stood in silence for 15 minutes for the 15 victims in Novi Sad, one minute for the fallen fellow citizen Andrije Ilic, but also a few minutes for the victims in Cetinje and Arilje.
The gathering at 11.52:XNUMX was held at the intersection in front of the Basic Court in Leskovac.
The citizens of Novi Pazar held a new fifteen-minute gathering as a sign of giving mail to the fifteen who died under the canopy in Novi Sad, and they also expressed solidarity with the families of the 12 killed in the mass crime in Cetinje, Montenegro. On the main square near Sebilje in the center of the city, about thirty citizens gathered, who, in addition to banners with the names of Novi Sad victims, also displayed a message of solidarity with the families of those killed in Cetinje. Due to the main weekly Muslim prayer, Juma, on Fridays at noon, the protest in Novi Pazar starts 15 minutes earlier and ends at 11.52:XNUMX.
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