Student List Billboards Vandalized in Loznica, Velika Plana
The Ne damo Jadar association says the Loznica billboard is not the list's property, and Google Maps images show it was blank in October 2025 and April 2026.
Billboards of the Student List were damaged in two towns, Loznica and Velika Plana, on the night between October 7 and 8. The Loznica billboard is the same one that Mayor Dragana Lukic spoke about two days earlier, claiming that the list’s slogan had replaced a photograph of the murdered police officer Nikola Krsmanovic.
What happened to the billboard in Loznica?
Nova.rs reports that unknown people daubed the billboard, which carried the message “Mi znamo kako” (“We know how”), with red paint. The association Ne damo Jadar posted about the damage on its social media profile. The accounts differ on timing: the outlet writes that the billboard was destroyed “the previous day,” while the association describes a nighttime incident. The association’s post reads:
“Last night the Student List billboard, about which all sorts of things were written yesterday, was desecrated. You accuse the students of removing Nikola Krsmanovic’s poster! But the billboard is not theirs, someone rented it to them.”
The association was responding to a campaign that began a day earlier. The sources do not say whether the case was reported to the police, and they carry no statement from the Student List.
Why did that billboard become a point of dispute?
Police officer Nikola Krsmanovic (34) was killed in July 2024 at the entrance to Loznica, shot by Faton Hajrizi. A memorial plaque was placed at the spot in November of that year, and a photograph of him was displayed on the billboard next to it.
On October 6, Mayor Lukic posted two photographs of the same billboard on Instagram. The first shows Krsmanovic’s image from November 2024, the second a Student List promotional poster for the upcoming parliamentary elections. She wrote alongside them:
“I am deeply upset and express my deepest regret over the act that put a political slogan in the place of the picture of our hero, because no politics can or may move our Nikola, because all politics are passing, but his heroic sacrifice is permanent.”
Lukic did not say in the post when the second photograph was taken. Officials of the Serbian Progressive Party and several media outlets repeated the claim.
What do the Google Maps images show?
Nova.rs published Google Maps images showing the state of the billboard in October 2025 and April 2026. They show neither Krsmanovic’s photograph nor any other advertisement, only remnants of previously pasted material. According to the outlet, that means the police officer’s photograph had not been on the billboard since at least October 2025, so the list’s promotional material did not directly replace it.
As of publication, Mayor Lukic had not responded to the finding about the images. Nova.rs also reports that the campaign was launched ahead of the student action “Door to Door,” scheduled for October 8 and 9 in Draginac, Nikola Krsmanovic’s birthplace.
What was destroyed in Velika Plana?
In Velika Plana the same night, unknown people threw paint at, and spray-painted over, Student List billboards and slogans from the campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections. One of the destroyed slogans stands on private property. On one billboard, someone sprayed: “To sell so that Kosov, I sell Kosovo.”
The Velika Plana information comes from a single source, an unnamed person familiar with the case, along with photographs provided by that person. The source carries no police statement and no statement from the Student List.
On two different sites, in the same night, the same type of material and the same list were hit, but the available information does not say who did it or whether the cases are linked.
