At the protest outside the building of Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) in Belgrade, students announced that the public broadcaster had aired information about today’s incident near the Faculty of Law in the 19th minute of the programme.

They called for a gathering at Slavija Square in Belgrade on 23 May with the message: “Come so that we may switch on the light and extinguish the darkness.”

What did the students demand from RTS?

Earlier, they had demanded that the public broadcaster air information about today’s incidents near the Faculty of Law, during which a 90-year-old man was injured after being struck by a car. Before the march, the students sent a letter and official notice to RTS. They also published the contents of the notice sent to the public broadcaster.

“Given that an attack occurred today, which the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office has classified as attempted aggravated murder, we believe that you, as a public broadcaster, are obliged to report adequately to the public on such an event. The Law on Public Media Services obliges you to inform the public truthfully, impartially, comprehensively, and in a timely manner,” the students stated.

“We expect RTS to fulfil the request we submitted to them,” the students in blockade wrote on the social network X.

Earlier, a letter from the students occupying the Faculty of Law was read aloud, in which they attributed responsibility for today’s incidents during the traffic blockade near the faculty to officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia (MUP) and the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

The letter states that those officials had “ordered the police to stop providing security” for the students’ blockade gatherings, even though, as they added, the police are obliged to do so regardless of whether the gathering has been officially registered, according to the Beta news agency.

“The Constitution guarantees freedom of assembly, and the Law on Police obliges the police to protect and improve the safety of citizens and property. The question of whether a gathering has been officially registered has no bearing whatsoever on this obligation,” stated the students occupying the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

Protest outside the Faculty of Law

They headed towards RTS after another gathering at the intersection outside the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, where two cars had earlier driven at the crowd. In some sense, the blockade had not been interrupted since those incidents. Whistles could be heard, along with chants of “Pump it up”, “If you don’t jump, you’re a loyalist”, “We want elections”, and “One, three, one, two – servants of the occupier”, while mentions of the police prompted chants of “dogs”.

They called on those gathered at tonight’s protest to remain until the end of the broadcast of RTS’s main evening news programme, Dnevnik 2.

Citizens and bikers, who have frequently supported the students, are also taking part in the protest.

Shortly before 6 p.m., the Beta news agency reported that traffic police were redirecting traffic, while several police vans were parked in the immediate vicinity of the Faculty of Law, surrounded by a number of police officers.

Along the boulevard, as well as in Profesora Mihaila Đurića Street and Beogradska Street which intersect it, a number of empty trams and city buses are standing still. In the nearby improvised tent settlement of government supporters in Pioneer Park, several dozen riot police officers are present, though their shields are lowered and the situation is currently calm.

Today’s gathering began at 11:52 a.m., so that students and citizens could hold 16 minutes of silence, but it was extended after a car struck an elderly man who was transported to the Emergency Centre and who, according to the students, suffered a broken leg.

Police arrested the driver, who was remanded in custody for up to 48 hours on suspicion of the criminal offence of attempted aggravated murder. The University Clinical Centre of Serbia (UKCS) announced that the elderly man (90) injured in today’s incident is in stable condition and has been kept in the orthopaedic ward.

Later, another car drove at the crowd at the same location, though no one was injured in that incident.

(Nedeljnik, 14.05.2026)

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