Striking students in Serbia tell chief prosecutor to 'fight for law and justice'
Source: AP
Updated 7:32 AM CST, December 25, 2024
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s striking university students on Wednesday rallied outside the chief prosecutor’s office to demand justice over a concrete canopy collapse that killed 15 people last month in the country’s north.
More than 1,000 students symbolically left letters on the doorstep of the public prosecutor’s office, telling chief prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac that “students expect you to fight for law and justice, without political abuse or corruption.”
Dolovac’s office later responded with a statement inviting a student delegation to a meeting.
Serbia’s universities have been blockaded for weeks as part of a wider movement demanding accountability over the Nov. 1 tragedy in Novi Sad when a huge concrete construction at the railway station crashed onto the people below.
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