A 26-year-old woman hit the crowd of anti-government demonstrators in Belgrade on Friday, injuring a young 25-year-old woman. The driver has escaped from the crime, but the police soon tracked and detained it, TASR reports, according to Tanjug and AP reports.
The police only published the initials of the detained lotion (MS) and that it was a Citroën car. She also stated that The injured young woman was taken to the emergency room and hospitalized, her condition was not immediately known. According to the police, the incident occurred on the protest march on Yuri Gagarina Street in the New Belgrade district.
A similar incident occurred in an anti -government demonstration in Belgrade a week ago. The crowd of protesting students also threw a car, and a young woman suffered a serious injury. Even then, the driver escaped from the crime scene, but soon he was detained by the police.
Anti -government demonstrations took place this Friday in many Serbian cities such as Belgrade, Nový Sad, Kragujevac or Nis, Kraljevo, Sabac, Smederevo, Jagodina, Zaječar or Uzice. Thousands of demonstrators led by secondary and university students blocked intersections for 15 minutes, To honor 15 victims of the November tragedy at the railway station in Novi Sad.
The protests were announced in advance by university students and part of the opposition. They called for a general strike and appealed to entrepreneurs, traders, gastronomic survivors or cultural institutions, to join them. It was not clear how many did they do. For example, AFP writes that some teachers or lawyers have joined the strike and several theaters or cinemas have been closed.
The accident in Novi Sad occurred on November 1, Shortly after the mentioned railway station underwent extensive reconstruction. 14 people died on the spot At the age of six to 74 years, 15. The victim succumbed to injuries in the hospital a few weeks later.
The event was caused by extensive protests, which was later joined by students of the University in Belgrade. AP describes that teaching at Serbian universities and many other schools has been interrupted for about two months. The Serbian Prosecutor’s Office has already accused 13 people in connection with the tragedy at the end of December, including former Minister of Construction and Transport Goran Vesič, who resigned a few days after the tragedy. However, the Vesiča was only briefly detained, which, according to AP, raised doubts about the independence of the tragedy investigation. Students continue to protest and claim that there is still no reasonable responsibility.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučič and pro -government media accuse students of organizing protests on orders of foreign secret services in order to overthrow the government, recalls AP. In Jagodina, a pro -government gathering of Vučič’s supporters takes place on Friday evening.
