Balkan letter
“It was as if a plane or a huge truck happens to you but you have no idea where it comes from and how to escape it. »» Saturday, March 15, Tibor Moldvai witnessed a strange event when he was one of the 300,000 Serbs descended in the streets of Belgrade to protest against corruption, Acme of the anger movement that has shaken this Balkan country since the collapse of the novi Sad station, which occurred on 1er November 2024.
“We were in the midst of fifteen minutes [pour les quinze victimes de cet accident dont le bilan est passé à seize morts, vendredi 21 mars, après le décès d’une nouvelle victime] When, all of a sudden, a huge noise arrived on us, it was frightening ”, explains this demonstrator who was then on one of the main axes in the center of the capital. Like everyone, he rushed to the sidewalks to escape.
THE Many videos broadcast on social networks Show a crowd that suddenly divides in half, as if to let an invisible vortex pass whose duration does not exceed a few seconds. “Gently, slowly”, Criest some by trying to avoid a potentially dramatic movement while the Belgrade center was crowded with demonstrators brandishing their mobile phones for what was the peak of the protest day.
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Source: Lemonde