By Aleksandar Vasovic
Belgrade -Tens of thousands of protesters descended in the capital of Serbia Belgrade on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations in decades, with students and workers facing the riot police and the supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic.
Serbia has seen months of anti -government manifestations after 15 deaths from a collapse of the roof of a railway station triggered accusations of generalized corruption and negligence.
The protests have embedded to include students, teachers and farmers in a great challenge for Vucic, a populist in power for 12 years as a prime minister or president.
“Today we will demonstrate our dissent … to show what we are fighting, a normal state, a rule of law, without corruption, lie, media pressures, persecutions,” said Aleksa Cvetovic, a 23 -year -old student who has attended demonstrations since December.
The government denies the accusations of graft and incompetence and says that Western intelligence agencies are supporting an impulse to destabilize Serbia.
Although the protests have been largely peaceful, the police said that a car raised a column of protesters, injuring three people, in a suburb of Belgrade, while a group of men attacked and wounded a student and university conference in the center.
Police said they arrested 13 people in incidents during the night and early on Saturday, including three men after an attack on the tractors of pro-vúcical farmers parked in a ring around the Pionirci Park where government supporters have been camping.
Festive mood
On the other side of the street, hundreds of veterans of elite military brigades in Baina and Brown Cyclists, both allies with the students, aligned as the march advanced between the Parliament building and the nearby Slavija square.
The students established their own security guards, dresses of fluorescent yellow vests, between the police and the protesters.
“I think there will be no tensions and problems unless the regime causes them,” said Bojan Popovic, 22, a student who has a Serbian flag.
The streets drowned while the protesters maintained a festive mood, illuminated flares and sang their slogan “Up Up bomb”.
Students demand the publication of documents on the disaster of last year’s railway station in the city of Novi Sad, and the responsibility of those responsible.
Many had traveled hundreds of miles on foot or by bicycle.
Dozens of Belgrade residents took outdoor heater for protesters and offered them hot food. Grandmothers gave students cookies and cakes freshly baked.
Prosecutors have accused 13 people for the Novi Sad disaster, and the Government has announced an anti -corruption campaign. Prime Minister Milos Vucevic and two ministers have also resigned during protests.
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