The Kreni-Promeni movement announced that more than 119.000 citizens attended last night's protest in the center of Belgrade due to the announcement of lithium mining.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs estimates that there were between 25 and 27 thousand gathered at last night's protest.
The Kreni-Pereni movement in a post on the X network stated that they came to this data using an application for "counting the crowd at public events".
"The demand of the protest is the adoption of a ban on boron and lithium mining. The people's initiative of over 38.000 signatures was submitted to the National Assembly in May 2022. By not putting the people's initiative to a vote in the Assembly, the Constitution of Serbia was violated, since the parliament is obliged to decide on this initiative within six months," announced the Move-Change movement.
Dacic said that the police detained 14 people during the protest because there were grounds for suspecting that they had committed criminal acts.
He criticized the way the gathering was reported.
"The meeting was registered on July 30, as a stationary one, in Terazije. Then on August 7, the organizer Nebojša Petković, on whose behalf Marko Kovačević submitted the supplement, where it is said that at 19 p.m. there will be a stationary part of the meeting, where he will address speakers, and at 20 p.m. a walk from Terazi through Kneza Miloša Street to the intersection with Višegradska. When they heard what their intentions were, they were warned that it was a violation of the law, which unfortunately the demonstrators did not heed," said Dacic.
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