00:00Diana Horka is the mother of a young man who died at Novi Sad railway station in November 2024.
00:07She went on hunger strike over ten days ago. Talk to you tomorrow were the last words she
00:12said to her 27-year-old son Stefan in a phone call. The next day he was killed when a concrete
00:18canopy weighing several hundred tons collapsed while he was waiting outside the railway station.
00:24Now Horka is camped outside the Serbian parliament in Belgrade on hunger strike
00:29and demanding justice for her son and for the 15 other people who died that day.
00:51So far no one has been held accountable for the disaster. The incident sparked a wave of
00:57unprecedented protests across Serbia. Horka says that over the past year
01:01the authorities have promised that those responsible for the tragedy would be brought to justice.
01:06Although some ministers resigned, including the then Prime Minister MiloÅ” VuceviÄ,
01:12no one has been convicted of the collapse of the canopy. So she decided to take action.
01:17No one was processed for the arrest. I didn't listen to it. The police didn't work. The police didn't work.
01:25The police didn't work. The police didn't work. The police didn't work.
01:27And when I understood that this would be difficult, I thought I had to take something to take action.
01:32Even though I had to take action. And I believe that I didn't have a lot of attention.
01:36I said, that's it. What's going on?
01:39Horka has submitted three demands to the authorities. Firstly, that all those responsible for the canopy
01:45collapse be questioned and prosecuted. Secondly, that all students who have been arrested during
01:49protests over the past year be released from custody. And thirdly, that the President of Serbia call
01:55early elections. Just a few hundred meters from where she is on hunger strike, supporters of Serbian
02:00President Aleksandr VuceviÄ have set up camp and are guarded by the police. They play folk and patriotic
02:06songs on loudspeakers at night. Horka says they do it to intimidate her. She blames one man for
02:12what happened in Novi Sad last November. President Aleksandr VuceviÄ.
02:17I think that this is the personal part of me and Aleksandr VuceviÄ. He looks at it on the personal level.
02:23Because if a leader, as he says that he is a leader, he thinks that we are his private ownership.
02:31I'm not a private ownership. I have my own ownership. And this nation doesn't belong to him.
02:38He has to know. He can't buy anyone from this nation. He can buy his own houses, but he can't buy us.
02:46The tent has become Horka's new home. People come in large numbers every day to show their support.
02:51She calls them her second family. She says that while nothing can bring back her child,
02:57she hopes that no other mother will ever have to suffer what she has suffered.
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