(5 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Novi Sad, Serbia – 5 September 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of police and protesters facing off in front of the university
2. Various of tear gas fired, protesters dispersing
3. Protesters booing while police vehicle driving on the street
4. Police on police vehicles driving, protesters running away
5. Police firing tear gas
6. Various of police on the street
7. Various of protesters in front of the university with lit flares
8. Various of protests, bang heard
++EARLIER DUSK SHOTS++
9. Various of protest
10. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Zeljko Miladinovic, protester:
”We are here to support students and we are expecting early parliamentary elections as soon as possible, as students request. That is the only request now because they have not fulfilled any previous ones.”
11. Protest
12. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Jelena Perencevic, protester:
”We are here because we want elections, we are here because of the institutions and this abnormality we live in. We had enough, we want this to stop and to go back to normal life. This is unbearable. This is a catastrophe. This is not life. Everything has stopped because of one man. Where is the end to this?”
13. Protest
STORYLINE:
Baton-wielding riot police in a northern Serbia town on Friday fired tear gas and charged at thousands of peaceful protesters who were demanding free elections and justice after months of demonstrations against the autocratic rule of President Aleksandar Vucic.
The protest led by university students came more than 10 months after a concrete canopy collapsed at a train station in the 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.
There were no immediate reports of injuries in Friday’s chaos triggered by the police action.
Ambulances could be seen driving through Novi Sad’s streets.
Vucic, who has claimed he wants to take Serbia to the European Union, has branded the protesters as terrorists who want to unseat him from power with the help of the West.
He has attended a gathering earlier this week in China that included Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of China and North Korea, along with the Belarus and Iranian presidents.
The protesters have been demanding early elections and criminal prosecutions against those responsible for the canopy collapse, as well as free media that Vucic is trying to stifle.
Dozens of university professors, deans and high school teachers have been sacked in the past months as authorities cracked down against their support of the students.
They have been replaced by Vucic’s loyalists.
The protest on Friday centered around a university building that was taken over by Vucic’s loyalists and police over a week ago.
University students have been a key force behind the nationwide protesters triggered by the concrete canopy collapsed at the main train station in Novi Sad.
AP video shot by: Ivana Bzganovic and Mirko Todorovic
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