US EditionOne Year After the Novi Sad Collapse, Serbia’s Protest Movement Intensifies
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One year after the collapse of the canopy at Novi Sad station, tens of thousands of Serbs of the 16 victims were commemorated there on Saturday.
Everything was very poignant on Saturday at the commemoration of the victims of the canopy in Novi Sad, dignified and magnificent - when I heard my song "Cveta trešnja u planini" I was surprised at first, and then, like most people, I experienced a kind of catharsis in relation to the whole event and everything that happened that day in Novi Sad - writer and academic Dušan Kovačević tells Danas.
One year after the Novi Sad collapse, Serbia’s protest movement intensifies
It has been a year since the concrete canopy at Novi Sad train station collapsed, sparking one of Serbia’s largest youth-led protest movements in recent memory. But what does this movement show about the future of democracy in Serbia?
For a year now, Serbia has been confronted with the most powerful protest movement in its history. Everything began with the tragic collapse of the concrete awning of Novi Sad station, which killed 16 people on November 1, 2024. Since then, it is a whole system of lies, corruption and authoritarianism and violence that the protestors denounce. Reunited in student plenums or zborovi, in citizen assemblies, the protestors also lay the foundations …
In Dortmund, too, the victims of the disaster in the Serbian partner city Novi Sad were reminded. Photo: The Left Dortmund This weekend, for the first time, the disaster was celebrated in Dortmund's Serbian partner city Novi Sad. At 11.52 a.m., the newly renovated train station canopy collapsed there on November 1, 2024 and killed 16 people. In memory of the victims, The Left Dortmund organized an event at the Novi Sad square on the Schwanenwall…
Rebellious Novi Sad: "A city of collective mourning and awakened human solidarity" - On the anniversary day, the largest city in the Southern Region hosted a large-scale protest.
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