Dijana Hrka has vacated the area near Serbia’s Parliament in Belgrade where she had been protesting since 2 November.
As of Friday, the tents where Hrka — the mother of the young man who died in the collapse of a canopy in Novi Sad — and war veterans supporting her had been staying are no longer present.
Hrka posted on her Instagram story (originally by a user identified as Ivan Radovanović) that she and her supporters will continue their fight, but “on another terrain.” Her message:
“Until now you knew where we were, now you will no longer know.”
Background: On 2 November — one day after the first anniversary of the canopy collapse — Hrka began a hunger strike demanding accountability for the tragedy. The strike lasted 15 days, until 17 November. She vowed to continue her protest even after ending the hunger strike.
Her most recent public statement, 2 December, declared that she would no longer announce the details of her activism.
“Everything will now happen outside Belgrade, nothing more in Belgrade. Everything I plan is secret. I won’t let them ‘stab me in the back,’” she said then, while the protest tent was still standing in front of Parliament.
Social media users reported that the tents were removed on Friday.
