With mirrors raised so that the judiciary could see "its own reflection", citizens gathered on Monday in front of the Appellate Court in Belgrade, which acquitted four accused of murdering journalist Slavko Ćuruvija on April 11, 1999.
The gathered stood for 25 minutes in silence for the "25 long years" of waiting for justice.
On the white flag was written "You have killed justice, but the truth lives".
"There are no more words that we can send, that's why we brought a white flag to hand over to the judiciary and the state of Serbia," said Ivana Stevanović from the "Slavko Ćuruvija" Foundation.
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Journalists' associations, media associations and trade unions called for the protest.
The Court of Appeal in Belgrade announced on February 2 that it had reversed the first-instance verdict of the Special Department for Organized Crime of the High Court in Belgrade and acquitted the four accused of murdering journalist Slavko Ćuruvija on April 11, 1999 - Radomir Marković, Milan Radonjić, Ratko Romić and Miroslav Kurak.
Previously, members of the former Department of State Security were twice found guilty by the Special Department for Organized Crime and sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison.
The journalist and owner of the newspapers "Dnevni Telegraf" and "Evropljanin" was killed in 1999 in Svetogorska Street, with multiple shots, and in 2015 the head of the State Security (DB) Radomir Marković and three high-ranking officials of the DB Milan Radonjić were accused of that murder. , Ratko Romić and his godfather Miroslav Kurak.
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