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Student protests gaining traction in Serbia after 15 killed in train station collapse

By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Content warning: mentions of violence against protestors. Editor’s note: The quotes taken from the interview conducted for this piece were translated from Serbian to English independently by the writer, who is fluent in Serbian. On November 1, 2024, a concrete roof collapsed in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second largest city, killing 15 people. Since then, mass protests have erupted across the country, alleging government corruption and incompetence caused this tragedy. These protests have been organized largely by students, with the support of the broader Serbian population, as the collapse “has come to symbolize a wider discontent”…

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