Anger drove Marija Petrovic to join student protests in Belgrade in November. A railway station roof had collapsed days earlier in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, killing 15 people. Thugs then set upon demonstrators who were calling for justice for the dead.

The student movement in Serbia makes decisions by direct democracy and debates matters for hours on end, yet everything runs like clockwork. This is how the wave of student blockades at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia began on November 2 last year.