People in Serbia on the streets after a terrible tragedy: Murderers! Your hands are bloody. We want resignations!

On Sunday, thousands of Belgraders protested “This drop broke the camel’s back”, demanding the resignation of the Minister of Construction, Goran Vesi, and responsibility for the collapse of the concrete canopy at the Novi Sad railway station on Friday, an accident. in which 14 mostly young people died, and three people were seriously injured. The protesters, shouting “Murderer, murderer” and “Prisoner, prisoner”, spilled red paint on the sidewalk in front of the ministry building and the appeals court and symbolically left handprints painted red with the message “your hands are bloody”.

On the banners they carried were written the messages “A crime, not a tragedy”, “There would not be this blood if everything was according to the law”, “We have few cemeteries for their mistakes”, “Resignations”, “If you are looking for responsible, look in the mirror”…

The policemen, who were standing in a cordon in front of the ministry and the building of the Government of Serbia, were placed mirrors in front of their faces, telling them to look at themselves and ask if they were aware that they were “protecting people who killed children”.

“And they are responsible, because they protect the state, and the state is a murderer. They defend the mafia!” said the activist of the SviĆe association Mila Pajić.

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Musician Marko Šelić Marčelo believes that the protest in Belgrade, after the accident in Novi Sad, sent a clear message and that “it couldn’t be clearer”.

“It turned out that the street is the only institution we still have,” said Šelić.

Associations and civic initiatives, organizers of the protest, invited the gathered to join the protestors of the group “The Bridge Remains”, which more For 72 hours, they rioted around the Old Sava Bridge next to the “Belgrade on the Water” housing and business complex, trying to prevent the demolition of the bridge announced by the city administration of the Serbian capital.

At the same time, high-ranking officials and pro-government media accuse activists and the opposition of abusing the tragedy in Novi Sad for “gaining cheap political points” and political struggle.

Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević he stated today that it is unquestionable that criminal and political responsibility must be established. He said that he should not run away from it, but that it should be determined calmly and responsibly in the coming days and that it “won’t last long”, the Tanjug agency reported.

“As for political responsibility, it must exist. I spoke with the president of Serbia and we will make that decision with a cool head, rationally, and not carried by tweets and posts on social networks,” said Vučević to journalists in Novi Sad.

If someone else’s head is sought, then it is not a question of the greater responsibility. chases, he added.

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Posters with the figures of Vučevi, the former Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Tomislav Momirovic and the current head of that department, Goran Vesi, with the message “Corruption kills – you will be responsible!”, appeared this morning on &ccaron four locations in Novi Sad.

The Serbian Prime Minister, commenting on the angry public messages sent to the authorities after the tragedy in Novi Sad, said that “only a monster can say that this is murder”.

“And the truth must be told. “No one has all the data, as it is a very complex issue,” Vučević said.

The investigation into the demolition of the canopy at the station is being conducted by the Novi Sad Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office, and so far, according to official data, more than 40 persons in the chain of responsibility have been heard.