European Democrats on Serbia: Eleven Months Without Justice, Regime Continues with Impunity

The Novi Sad Railway Station (BetaPhoto/Dragan Gojic)

The European Democratic Party announced on Oct. 1 that 11 months after the concrete canopy collapse killed 16 people at the Novi Sad’s newly-renovated railway station justice has still not been served. Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic cannot continue with his policy of impunity, the party stressed and demanded that the rule of law prevail.

“[Eleven] months have passed. Sixteen lives lost. Still no justice. Today, Serbia remembers the victims of the Novi Sad railway station collapse: 16 minutes of silence for 16 lives. And yet, silence also defines the government’s response,” reads the Democrats’ post on X.

“President Vucic’s Serbia cannot continue with impunity, where politics bends the law, and where [the] police and judiciary serve power instead of citizens,” claimed the party, whose MEPs belong to the liberal political group Renew Europe.

The statement further underscored that “Europe is not built on silence and negligence – it is built on justice, transparency, and accountability.”

The party, whose secretary-general Sandro Gozi recently visited Belgrade, asserted that, as European Democrats, its members “stand with the people of Serbia in demanding truth, responsibility, and dignity for the victims.” “Rule of law must prevail – in Serbia, in Europe, everywhere,” the press release concluded.