- Title: Serbia's Vucic promises to meet protesters' demands after train station disaster
- Date: 11th December 2024
- Summary: BELGRADE, SERBIA (DECEMBER 11, 2024) (REUTERS) SERBIAN PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDAR VUCIC, ENTERING PRESS BRIEFING ROOM AND SITTING AT DESK CAMERA OPERATORS FILMING (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) SERBIAN PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDAR VUCIC, SAYING (AUDIO OF PROTEST OUTSIDE BUILDING IN BACKGROUND): "Allegations have emerged regarding the concealment of documentation, its fabrication, its disappear
- Embargoed: 25th December 2024 19:42
- Keywords: 15 killed Aleksandar Vucic Novi Sad Serbian President canopy collapse railway station
- Location: BELGRADE AND NOVI SAD, SERBIA
- City: BELGRADE AND NOVI SAD, SERBIA
- Country: Serbia
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001654611122024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Beset by weeks of protests by students over a deadly train station disaster last month, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic acted on Wednesday (December 11) to defuse the unrest by pledging to meet all their demands.
The concrete awning of the recently renovated roof of the railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad caved in on Nov. 1, killing 14 people and injuring three. One of those hurt later died of their injuries.
Following the disaster, opposition parties, students and the public took to the streets, blaming the accident on government corruption, negligence and nepotism that resulted in shoddy construction.
The ruling coalition and Vucic denied the charges and said all those responsible for the disaster must be held to account.
Students' demands included publication of all documents related to reconstruction of the station and release of arrested protesters.
While Vucic spoke, hundreds of students who gathered in front of his office in the city centre jeered and demanded his resignation.
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