Serbian students began an 18-day run from Belgrade to Brussels on Friday to address the European Parliament about the massive anti-corruption protests shaking Serbia.
After a 13-day, 1,400km bicycle journey from Novi Sad to Strasbourg earlier this month, a new wave of students took off on foot. The group plans to cover 1,933 kilometres through eight countries, arriving in Brussels on 12 May while the Parliament is in session. The run follows the slogan “From my village to Brussels.”
The 80 Serbian students who cycled from Novi Sad to Strasbourg handed a letter to the Council of Europe detailing events since 1 November, when the demonstrations kicked off in earnest. The outpouring of protests is in response to a canopy of Novi Sad’s Chinese-renovated railway station that collapsed, killing 16. The tragedy sparked outrage and accountability from president Aleksandar Vučić’s government.
