Photo: Miloš Milivojević / TanjugOn the first working day of the new year, protests against Rio Tinto and lithium mining in the Jadra valley continued under the slogan "We know we don't give". The Union of Environmental Organizations of Serbia called for a road blockade, but the response was modest
After the fulfillment of the initial requirements of the environmental protests, a number of organizations withdrew, and the number of people participating in road blockades also decreased. Formal and informal leaders of the environmental uprising were "frozen" blockades during the holidays, but the Union of Environmental Organizations of Serbia decided to try to start the avalanche again on Monday, January 3rd.
Blockades were organized in several cities in Serbia, and the most people were in Novi Sad and Loznica. The protest lasted from 13:16 to XNUMX:XNUMX. A gathering was also held in Gornji Nedeljice.
The leader of the Ecological Uprising, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, told "Vreme" from the gathering in Gornji Nedeljice that the demand is the same - "deletion of the Jadar project from the republic's spatial plan" and adds that the Ecological Uprising will continue blocking roads after Christmas.
The protests passed peacefully and again without the presence of the police. The only incident in Preljina was when a driver crashed into a woman who was standing in a roadblock.
The list of locations that SEOS published on its Facebook page did not include Belgrade, but several dozen citizens gathered on their own at the Sava Center. Right-wing and anti-vaxxer slogans dominated there, which have nothing to do with environmental protests.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced from the barracks in Pancevo that the continuation of protests and blockades with the request that the state terminate all contracts with Rio Tinto is a "political game".
Earlier, to the protestors' deadline for the Jadar project to be withdrawn by Christmas, President Aleksandar Vučić replied, "Rio Tinto is standing still and will not move anywhere."
They announce from the protest that the blockades will be held next weekend and that they will become radicalized.
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