(1 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade, Serbia – 1 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of protesters marching
2. Mid of protesters holding banner reading (Serbian) “ High school students remember”
3. Various of protesters marching
4. Wide of police on street near parliament and presidency building
5. Wide of protesters; UPSOUND booing and shouting
6. Wide of police on street
7. Mid of policeman on street with Vucic supporters in background
++DAY SHOTS++
8. Wide of protesters
9. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Pavle Maksimovic, Belgrade resident:
“We are here today to support the truth, to support what students have been doing for the past 10 months. The time has come for something to change.”
10. Wide of protesters
11. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Igor (no last name given) Belgrade resident:
“We are here to support our children, in everything they do.”
12. Protesters marching by state TV building (RTS) ++NIGHT SHOT++
STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched again in Serbia on Monday with shielded riot police in presence.
Demonstrators gathered as officers guarded the Belgrade headquarters of Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic who has been threatening a major crackdown against those who have been protesting his populist rule.
The protest led by high school and university students marked 10 months since the collapse of a concrete canopy at a train station in Serbia’s northern town of Novi Sad, killing 16 people.
The disaster ignited a wave of public outrage, with state corruption and negligence cited as a major cause.
The protesters have been demanding early elections, transparent investigations and criminal prosecutions for those responsible for the canopy collapse, as well as free media that Vucic is trying to stifle.
More than a hundred university and high school professors have lost their jobs as the government cracked down against their support of the students.
The large protest on Monday was held as Vucic, who has claimed he wants to take Serbia to a European Union membership, travelled to China for a gathering that includes Russian President Vladimir Putin as well as the leaders of China, North Korea, along with the Belarus and Iranian presidents.
Thousands of Vucic’s supporters marched in several Serbian towns on Sunday in a sign of deep divisions in the Balkan state.
AP Video by Ivana Bzganovic
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