A large number of people gathered in front of the Kragujevac city building to welcome students who are coming to the city on foot to join the protest announced for February 15, reports a Radio Free Europe reporter.
Students blocking faculties, demanding that the authorities be held accountable for the accident in Novi Sad, arrive in Kragujevac after four days of walking.
Several columns of students walked from different parts of Serbia, and a number of students came by bicycle.
As RFE/RL reports, cyclists from Belgrade were the first to arrive in Kragujevac to be welcomed. Some of the crowd handed them flowers and thank-you notes.
Then, marathon runners arrived in Kragujevac, having started that day from Belgrade, in front of the Temple of Saint Sava.
The largest number of them left on February 11th - from Niš and Belgrade.
Some of them have already arrived in Kragujevac, while the arrival of the remaining students is expected in the coming hours.
In the previous days, they passed through and slept in several cities in Serbia, where citizens welcomed them with refreshments and food.
Students blocking the University of Kragujevac are organizing a protest on February 15th and, as they announced, a 15-hour blockade of Lepenički Boulevard in that city on the national holiday of Sretenje.
This is the second time since the start of student protests on November 26 that a group of academics has walked through Serbia to join colleagues at a demonstration in another city.
Previously, some students from Belgrade University walked for two days to Novi Sad to participate in the protests in that city on February 1st.
The death of 15 people in the collapse of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad triggered a wave of protests across Serbia and blockades of higher education institutions.
The demands of the students on the blockade, who are seeking accountability from the authorities for the accident, have been supported by individual professors, educators, lawyers, farmers, actors, and other citizens.
The government, led by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, claims that the students' demands have been met.
The students in the blockade respond that Vučić is not responsible for fulfilling their demands, that they have not been met, and that they are continuing their protests.
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