Serbian demonstrators gathered
for a rally outside a pro-government television channel on
Saturday, branding it a "propaganda tool", in the latest of
nearly five months of mass protests. Holding banners
"Manipulator, not a journalist," waving Serbian and university
flags, and blowing whistles, student organisers called on
citizens to join the demo in front of the offices of Informer, a
television station with a tabloid newspaper of the same name.
"Informer has been spreading numerous lies and falsehoods for a
long time," said Bogdan Vucic, a student at the Belgrade Faculty
of Political Science. The nationwide wave of student-led
protests against state corruption has raised pressure on the
nationalist government of President Aleksandar Vucic. It was
sparked by the deadly collapse of a roof at a newly-renovated
train station in Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, in November.
Since the beginning of the protests, pro-government media have
portrayed student demonstrators as "foreign agents," alleging
they are funded by the opposition and plotting a "coup d'etat".
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