(30 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade – 30 June 2025
1. Pan from special police to the protesters blocking the street
2. Special police on the street
3. Pan shot from special police to the protesters blocking the street
4. Various of protesters blocking the street, chanting (Serbian) “Pump it up”
5. Various pf protesters blocking the street and blowing whistles
6. Various of special police on the street
7. Special police moving in between protesters, protesters walking back with raised hands
8. Police walking and moving protesters towards the pavement
9. Police officer moving garbage bin from the street
10. Wide of police on the intersection with protesters standing on pavement
11. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milica Fotiric Aksic, university professor:
”I came here mainly – as a citizens, as a professor, as mother to cleanse ourselves of all evil, to breathe, to see clearly, so that there is justice for all.”
12. Police removing metal barriers
13. Woman holding banner reading (Serbian) “ Arrest the president and Serbian government”
14. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mirjana Bozic, pensioner:
”We are defending the country that was taken from us. Slowly, slowly the country that has been taken from us.”
15. Police removing metal barriers from the street
16. Police on the street with people standing on the pavement
17. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Milos Ilic, protester:
"These are peaceful protests and that’s it. No one here is causing any problems. People are standing here and trying to express themselves.”
18. Traffic on the street with police and people standing in pavement
19. Various of people continuously crossing the street on zebra crossing without traffic lights
STORYLINE:
Serbian police on Monday removed street blockades in the capital Belgrade that were part of a protest over a spate of arrests of anti-government protesters after a massive rally demanding an early parliamentary election.
Police dismantled metal fences and moved garbage containers blocking traffic in Belgrade’s Zemun district, while several dozen protesters raised their hands in the air and chanted anti-government slogans.
Police also intervened separately in a downtown area.
The blockades are part of persistent dissent against the government of populist President Aleksandar Vucic that started after a train station canopy collapsed in November, killing 16 people.
Thousands of demonstrators halted traffic at various locations in Belgrade and elsewhere throughout the country on Sunday evening, including a key bridge over the Sava River in the capital.
Police removed those blockades early on Monday.
Protesters have demanded justice for the victims of the canopy collapse in the northern city of Novi Sad on Nov. 1, which many in Serbia blame on corruption-fueled negligence in state infrastructure projects.
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