Thousands seek Serbian PM’ resignation over railway station deaths

BELGRADE: Several thousand people demonstrated on Monday evening in Belgrade to call for the resignation of Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic following a fatal train station roof collapse.

The protest in the Serbian capital came 10 days after the accident killed 14 in the northern city of Novi Sad´s train station, which had just completed a years-long renovation months earlier.

With minors among the dead, the accident sparked uproar across Serbia. Many protesters accuse the political class of nepotism and corruption, as well as lax oversight on construction and development projects.

Braving the cold and pouring rain to heed the opposition´s call to join Monday´s rally, protesters chanted for those responsible to be locked up, AFP journalists saw. “They weren´t victims of an accident, it wasn´t an accident. They were killed. They were killed by corruption, by criminality,” lawyer Jovan Rajic told the crowd from a podium.