The "Gazela" bridge, which crosses the Sava River in the Serbian capital Belgrade, was blocked in both directions this evening, BTA reported.
Students from the Faculty of Agriculture, who earlier today blocked the Aviators' Square in the Belgrade district of "Zemun", together with the gathered citizens, headed for the "Gazela" bridge and stopped traffic on the E75 highway.
The blockade is in protest against Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's intention to pardon a 25-year-old woman suspected of attempted murder after she ran over student Kristina Vasiljević with her car during a protest in New Belgrade on January 24 this year.
Kristina Vasiljević addressed those gathered on the Gazela Bridge this evening.
“I am not here today to seek any pity or to appeal for empathy for me, but to point out something much bigger – "the systemic injustice that humiliates us," Vasilević said.
Earlier in July, Vučić pardoned four supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party who were facing up to three years in prison for attacking a group of students in Novi Sad with fists and baseball bats in late January, breaking the jaw of one of the students.
The attack led to the resignation of then-Prime Minister Miloš Vučević.
A woman fainted during the blockade of the Gazela Bridge this evening and was taken by ambulance to the Emergency Center.
The main road to Užice (Western Serbia), which has seen repeated blockades over the past 10 days, was closed again this evening by protesting citizens. Protests also took place in Niš, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Kruševac.
For the past 8 months, citizens in Serbia have been protesting, demanding criminal and political accountability for the deaths of 16 people caused by the collapse last November of the concrete canopy of the railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. More than once during the protests and blockades, cars driven by people dissatisfied with the protests have crashed into the gathered crowd, at a time when 16 minutes of silence are being observed for the 16 victims.
A wave of protests, led mainly by students, swept Serbia after the tragedy in Novi Sad and became the biggest challenge in the political career of President Aleksandar Vučić.
In early May, the students announced that they wanted early parliamentary elections to be called, in which they would not run, but would support a citizens' list with names that enjoy high public trust in Serbia.