A student at the University of Novi Pazar suffered minor injuries last night, February 18th, when he was hit by a car while trying to bypass a roadblock in the city, students at the Novi Pazar State University announced.
The student whose hand was injured in the incident said that he and his fellow traffic warden were stopping traffic when a car in the convoy started to overtake and then crashed into him.
"I barely escaped. I jumped and hit the back of another car. It caught me in the arm," said the injured man.
He adds that the same car then ran into his colleague, that she took cover in time, and that he then fled the scene.
Local media reported that the incident was reported to the police.
Students blocking the State University in Novi Pazar, supported by citizens, blocked the main road leading to Montenegro and Prvomajska Street in that city on February 18th.
Since Tuesday, they have been blocking two roads and at those locations, they are observing a 16-minute silence to pay tribute to the 15 people who died in the collapse of the canopy of the renovated Novi Sad Railway Station and to student Ernad Bakan, who died when he was run over at a pedestrian crossing in Belgrade.
Protests by students and citizens continued across Serbia on Tuesday, demanding responsibility for the deaths of 15 people and the serious injury of two in Novi Sad on November 1st.
Blockades across Serbia on Tuesday
Blockades and fifteen-minute silences for the victims were held at several locations in Belgrade, Vranje, Šabac, Čačak, Kruševac, Lazarevac, Požega, Užice, Prokuplje, and Leskovac.
Protests by blockaded students and other citizens have been held since November 1 in more than 200 cities and towns across the country, with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Rallies in support of students in the blockade in Serbia in the past three months have been held in cities in the region, Ljubljana, Milan, Frankfurt, Vienna, Amsterdam, London, Luxembourg, America, Canada, Australia, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney.
Students are blocking more than 60 state faculties at five universities, demanding criminal and political accountability of the authorities for the death of 15 and serious injury to two people in the collapse of the Novi Sad Railway Station canopy on November 1st.
They have four demands: the publication of all documentation on the reconstruction of the Novi Sad Railway Station, the prosecution of all attackers who beat students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at a rally in Belgrade on November 22, whom the attackers claim are officials of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, the withdrawal of charges against those arrested at the demonstrations, and a 20 percent increase in the budget for faculties.
The Serbian Progressive Party government and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić claim that the students' demands have been met. The students in the blockade deny this, stating that Vučić is not responsible for them, but rather the judiciary and other institutions, and continue their daily protests.
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