For over a year, Serbia has been roiled by mass, student-led anti-government demonstrations that have grown into one of the largest political challenges to President Aleksandar Vucic’s administration since the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000. What began as calls for a transparent public inquiry into the November 2024 railway station canopy collapse that killed 16 people has snowballed into a broader movement demanding early national elections – and as the protests have expanded, so too has targeted violence against movement participants.