On the sixth day of her hunger strike, Dijana Hrka, mother of Stefan Hrka who died in the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse, is publicly shaming Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, daring him to face the consequences of his regime’s negligence. Yet, as always, Vučić chooses cowardice over accountability, refusing to appear and showing once more that he values appearances and propaganda over human life.
“This morning, the president’s simmering begins,” Hrka declared to FoNet, directly challenging Vučić to confront her in front of everyone: “Just let him come and tell me on what personal basis, so I can tell him some things.” But she knows the truth: Vučić lacks the courage to face the people he has failed. “That will never happen. I’ve been calling him for a year, he doesn’t have the guts,” she said.
While 16 innocent lives were lost due to systemic negligence, Vučić hides behind staged apologies, empty words, and media manipulation, refusing to meet the victims’ families. This is a government that ignores justice, obstructs accountability, and leaves citizens to pick up the pieces of its failures.
In front of the Serbian Parliament, citizens gather to support Hrka, offering water, asking about her health, and even providing apartments for rest — a glaring contrast to a government that abandons its people while basking in its own impunity. Riot police patrol the area, a visible symbol of a regime that protects itself instead of its citizens.
Hrka’s demands are simple and reasonable: prosecute those responsible for the tragedy, release all detained students, and call early parliamentary elections. Yet Vučić and his administration remain silent, absent, and complicit, exposing a leadership that thrives on repression, fear, and inaction.
Every day Hrka sits in front of the Assembly, the truth of this regime becomes undeniable: Aleksandar Vučić governs not to protect the people, but to shield himself and his cronies from accountability. The longer he hides, the more Serbia witnesses the moral bankruptcy of its so-called leadership.
