KRAGUJEVAC, Serbia (AP) — Serbia’s striking students and supporters of populist President Aleksandar Vucic were holding parallel rallies on Saturday as both marked the country’s Statehood Day with notably contrasting messages.
The student-led protest is the latest in a nationwide anti-graft movement that reflects mounting calls for fundamental political changes in the Balkan state, triggered after a concrete canopy on a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed on Nov. 1, killing 15 people.
The rally in the central industrial city of Kragujevac drew tens of thousands of people who, bedsides demanding justice over the accident, have been asking to root out rampant endemic corruption and respect for
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