Aleksandar Vucic (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
In a Nov. 10 Instagram post, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that he had a telephone conversation with Dijana Hrka early in the day and asked her to stop the hunger strike she entered on Nov. 2.
Vucic explained that he invited Hrka to a meeting in his offices.
The president stated he also called Ugljesa Mrdic, an MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, and pleaded with his fellow-Progressive to stop the hunger strike Mrdic began in front of the National Assembly of Serbia on Oct. 31.
Mrdic has been demanding the arrest of two former executives of Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije, the joint-stock company in charge of maintaining all public railways in the country. According to the MP, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime has failed to act on the evidence he provided, allowing the true culprits behind the Nov. 1, 2024 Novi Sad railway station collapse to go unpunished.
Yards away from Mrdic and the fenced-off regime camp where he has been staying, Hrka, the mother of one of the victims of the Novi Sad tragedy, has staged her own strike. Her main demand is accountability for the concrete overhang collapse that killed 16 – a case that has so far implicated, among others, two former Progressive ministers. Hrka is also calling for the release of all university students arrested during the last year of protests as well as for a snap parliamentary election.
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