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ARTICLE VIEW:
Serbian police use teargas to disperse anti-government protesters
By Reuters
Updated:
7:04 PM EDT, Fri September 5, 2025
Source: Reuters
Serbia’s police on Friday used teargas and stun grenades at a
university campus in Novi Sad to disperse protesters who demanded a
snap vote they hope would oust president Aleksandar Vucic and his
ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
On Friday evening thousands gathered at the state university campus.
They held banners reading “We don’t want blockades, we want
elections,” and “Students have one urgent demand: Call
elections.”
The crowd shouted “ leave.”
Protesters scuffled with the police in front of the philosophy faculty
and threw flares while police used teargas and stun grenades to push
the crowd away.
Months of protests across Serbia, including blockades of the state
universities, sparked by the deaths of 16 people last November killed
when the roof on a renovated railway station collapsed, have rattled
Vucic and his SNS party.
Protests were mainly peaceful until August 13 when dozens of police
officers and civilians were injured in clashes.
Protesters have blamed corruption for the Novi Sad railway station
disaster and are demanding early elections in hopes of ousting Vucic
and his party.
Students, opposition groups, and anti-corruption watchdogs have accused
Vucic and his allies of ties to organized crime, using violence against
political rivals, and suppressing media freedoms – allegations they
deny.
“The solution is to call elections,” Nebojsa Korac, one of the
protesters, said.
“On our side, we want peace and democracy to prevail, and for
political institutions to do their job. That means calling elections,
and that will be the solution, because the government will change.”
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