The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has called on students staying in camps in central Belgrade to return to their classes and go back to their homes on Saturday, March 15.
Vučić’s request comes as Belgrade is expected to be the center of a massive protest organized by other students, who have been blocking state universities for months, demanding accountability for the deaths of 15 people in the collapse of a shelter at the train station in Novi Sad on November 1.
Vučić met with a group of students who oppose the blockades on Thursday at the Serbian presidential building.
They told the Serbian president that they would make a decision about his request to withdraw “within the next 24 hours.”
“If you accept, thank you very much, you will ease our work. If you don’t accept, we will protect everyone,” Vučić told them.
