Hundreds of Serbian students and others staged 15-minute traffic blockades throughout the country on Friday to protest the collapse of a concrete canopy that resulted in the tragic deaths of 15 individuals. The blockades, occurring every Friday at 11:52 a.m., mark the exact time on Nov. 1 when the canopy fell on people outside a railway station building in Novi Sad.
The incident initially claimed 14 lives, with another person succumbing to injuries later in the hospital. Many Serbians attribute the collapse to corruption and substandard renovation work on the railway station, which had undergone multiple renovations in recent years as part of projects involving Chinese state companies.
