Serbia Against Violence to Hold Protest on Jan. 16, Mark Anniversary of Oliver Ivanovic’s Murder

Oliver Ivanovic (BetaPhoto/Sasa Djordjevic)

The Serbia Against Violence opposition coalition, which maintains that the December 2023 elections in Serbia were marked by fraud and should be re-held, has called a protest in front of the seat of the Serbian Electoral Coalition for Jan. 16, and at the same time will mark the sixth anniversary of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic.

Democratic Party president Zoran Lutovac told BETA that the protest was "against legal violence and the stolen election" in December, and that the demands were the annulment of the elections at all levels and calling a free and fair vote.

At the same time, Lutovac said, the sixth anniversary of the murder in Kosovska Mitrovica North of Oliver Ivanovic, president of the Serbia, Democracy, Justice civic initiative, will be commemorated, with the demand that "the orchestrators, perpetrators and masterminds of this politically motivated murder" be punished.

Freedom and Justice Party leader Dragan Djilas announced earlier that the vice president of the party, Marinika Tepic, would speak at the protest, and that the protesters would then march to the Church of St Mark and light candles in Ivanovic's memory.

Serbia Against Violence representatives Srdjan Milivojevic, Borislav Novakovic and Zarko Ristic are to lay wreaths at the spot where Ivanovic was murdered in Kosovska Mitrovica on Jan. 16.