For the past three months, large-scale student and citizen protests have persisted across Serbia. The collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad, a tragedy that claimed 15 lives, has escalated into the most severe political crisis since the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Aleksandar Vučić came to power.
The student movement began to take shape in late November when students from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade initiated a blockade of their faculty. This action followed an incident in which they were assaulted during a street protest commemorating the Novi Sad victims. Soon, students from Serbia’s major universities joined the movement, expanding the blockade, which remains ongoing.
