Serbian protesters demand arrests after railway station canopy collapse killed 14

Protesters have left pink handprints on the entrances of presidency buildings within the Serbian capital Belgrade to demand the arrest of officers simply days after a concrete cover collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 folks and injuring three.

Police shaped a cordon exterior the Ministry of Building and Infrastructure in central Belgrade as a number of thousand folks referred to as for rating authorities ministers, together with Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, to right away step down.

“What we identified at this time is the duty, duty of these sitting within the authorities and ministries which can be accountable for the tragedies that occurred,” stated protester, Ivan Bjelic.

“Our demand is that Goran Vesić [Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure] resigns as a result of that is his duty and since that occurs in regular international locations. In case they don’t do this, folks in Novi Unhappy, political organisations and events, and residents have introduced radical motion.”

The concrete cover that ran alongside the entrance of the railway station within the northern metropolis of Novi Unhappy collapsed all of a sudden on Friday, touchdown on individuals who had been sitting on benches or passing by the constructing’s entrance.

The useless included a 6-year-old lady. The three injured, who’re between 18 and 24 years outdated, all needed to have limbs amputated.

Funerals for the victims, attended by 1000’s, have been held in northern Serbia.

The prepare station has been renovated twice lately and critics of Serbia’s authorities attributed the catastrophe to rampant corruption, lack of transparency and sloppy renovations.

The renovation was a part of a wider cope with Chinese language building corporations.

“Residents not have something to lose, they’re more and more changing into conscious of this,” stated liberal politician Biljana Stojković.

“That is grief mixed with anger, despair that’s turning into rage.”

Serbia’s populist authorities has promised an intensive investigation, with prosecutors saying they have already got questioned greater than two dozen folks.

However critics consider that justice is unlikely to be served with the populists in agency management of the judicial system and the police.