A protective fence was erected in front of the City Hall in Novi Sad, Serbia, today, after opposition councilors and MPs left the area in front of the institution, which they had blocked during the morning.
This is a metal fence that remained in front of City Hall for weeks after it was vandalized during a large protest on November 5th.
Members of the police and gendarmerie also left the City Hall.
Opposition councilors and national and provincial deputies entered the City Hall after ten o'clock today and blocked it, leading to a clash with the police after about half an hour.
After pushing, the police threw the opposition representatives out of the entrance, and after the arrival of the gendarmerie, they were pushed out of the building.
Police evict councilors and MPs from Novi Sad City Hall
Serbian police have evicted the opposition from the City Hall in Novi Sad after councillors blocked the building with the plan to stay until their demands were met. The councillors remained outside the building, and tried to re-enter. Gendarmerie officers later arrived outside the building, N1 reported earlier today.
An action called by ProGlas, "Stop Serbia, stand with students", was also held, as they stated - a broader format than the previous daily actions "Stop Serbia", in which citizens and students paid tribute to the victims of the collapse of the canopy at the railway station at 11.52:1 with blockades and a XNUMX-minute silence, on November XNUMX last year.
Movement councilor Miran Pogačar in Novi Sad has been detained, his fellow opposition councilors said.

As recorded by the N1 camera, Pogačar was separated from a group of opposition councilors and, accompanied by two police officers, taken to one of the assembly rooms while members of the riot police expelled the opposition councilors from the City Hall.

The provincial MP told N1 that Pogačar was the only one left inside and that he was taken in handcuffs. She added that Pogačar will be taken to the Stari Grad police station.
The agency reports that Pogačar shouted from the police car: "People, go on strike! Everyone on strike," and that some citizens and councilors lay down on the asphalt in front of and behind the police car to prevent the vehicle from taking the councilor away.

They also called an ambulance because they said they were lying on the asphalt because they felt bad.
Journalists were told that Brajan Brković, an activist of the "Bravo" movement, was also detained earlier this morning, Beta reports.
Vučić: Irresponsible politicians broke the law
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić assessed today that the opposition's raid on the City Hall in Novi Sad was an irresponsible move and added that the opposition members who did so "brutally violated the law."
In a video message on the social network Instagram, he said that the state reacted and kicked them out because they did not belong there.
"They have no place there, nor is it the city council. The mayor is sitting there. None of them is the mayor (...) Such brutal violence is unacceptable, which is why the state reacted and kicked them out," Vučić said.
Mayor of Novi Sad: Attack on the state, on the constitutional order, unprecedented
Novi Sad Mayor Milan Đurić said that "the opposition violently stormed the City Hall" and that it was "remembered for Novi Sad."
He said at a press conference that opposition councilors had stormed the City Hall and blocked it, N1 reports.
"They entered the City Hall by force, unprecedented for Novi Sad. This is just one more proof, starting from that November 5th, that the opposition has no intention of coming to power peacefully, democratically, through elections, as is the only way to come to power, but only and exclusively through violence and through violence, and that the 'peaceful' protests were solely intended to violently invade public institutions," he says.
This, he claims, is "a blow to the state."
"On the constitutional order. What happened is unprecedented, that the chief of staff is threatened, a group of people who are still drunk, threaten him, know where he lives, they are going to come to his house, to attack him. They know where we live, they are coming to our house. We are witnessing unprecedented targeting of people, officials, and this is truly unprecedented what happened in Novi Sad, a peaceful city, that someone entered the City Hall, humiliated, harassed employees who are in the City Hall, who are not officials, employees, insulted them, entered the offices, like occupiers who entered the City Hall," he says.
He adds that this is "an unprecedented shame for the city."
"I think that today an ugly, horrible image will leave Novi Sad. They entered the City Hall without authorization, illegally, and blocked it from the inside, not from the outside," he says.
When asked by an N1 journalist whether he was considering resigning, since that was one of the students' demands, he answered in the negative.
Novaković: We will not calm down until the mayor resigns
Borislav Novaković, one of the Novi Sad councilors who was evicted from the City Hall by police earlier today, told N1 that he and his colleagues will not calm down until the mayor of Novi Sad resigns.
"The repression is intensifying and this is the largest use of force by the police so far. They hit me with shields, they kicked me. I am partially injured, but I will recover and we will move on," said Novaković after he was thrown out of the City Hall with a group of councilors.
He pointed out that the opposition is not in front of the City Hall by chance, recalling that it houses the work and office of the Mayor of Novi Sad, who he says is both subjectively and objectively responsible for the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad Railway Station on November 1 last year.
"Part of the documentation, which includes the canopy, also went through the City Hall and we will not rest until he resigns and all demands are met. We are staying until further notice. The success of this action does not depend on how many of us there are, but on how persistently, with what desire and will we want to fight. Our will to persevere must be stronger than their will," Novaković said.
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