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Tens of thousands protest in Serbia against the government
People wave Serbian flags as they gather at a square during a student-led protest and a 18-hour blockade of the streets to protest the deaths of 15 people killed in the November 2024 collapse of a train station canopy, in the town of Nis, Serbia, March 1, 2025

TENS of thousands of people in Serbia gathered on Saturday for a huge student-led rally to send a message that “we deserve better.”

University students across the Balkan country, which has been ruled firmly by a right-wing government for more than a decade, have been holding protests since a fatal train station canopy collapse in November killed 15 people. Critics have blamed government corruption.

The almost daily demonstrations regularly draw tens of thousands of people and have rattled President Aleksandar Vucic’s hold on power.

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