Protesters have blocked traffic daily across Serbia to protest the deaths of 15 people killed when a concrete canopy collapsed at Novi Sad railway station in November.
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00:00A woman has driven her car into a crowd of protesters in Belgrade as a student-led strike
00:07shuttered businesses across the country.
00:10Serbia has seen weeks of anti-government protests since 15 people were killed when a concrete
00:14canopy collapsed at Novi Sad train station in November.
00:19Protesters also accused President Aleksandar Vucic of being increasingly authoritarian
00:23and curbing democratic freedoms.
00:26Vucic held his own rally with thousands of his supporters meeting in the central town
00:30of Jagodina.
00:31Vucic blamed unspecified foreign forces for fueling the protest movement and called for
00:36a dialogue with the protest leaders.
00:40Fifteen people were killed when a concrete canopy at Novi Sad train station collapsed
00:44on the 1st of November.
00:46Protesters blamed the disaster on sloppy construction work caused by government corruption.
00:51Prosecutors filed charges against 13 people, but the former construction minister has since
00:56been released, fueling doubts over the probe's independence.