Novi Sad Trg Slobode fenced off for SNS rally, Dunav claims
Ahead of Friday's rally on October 16, Trg Slobode in Novi Sad is fenced off with stands, while Kreni-promeni relays Dunav Insurance staff reports of pressure to attend.
Trg Slobode (Liberty Square) in Novi Sad was completely fenced off on Thursday, October 15, with stands set up for the campaign rally of the “Aleksandar Vucic - United Serbia” list, scheduled for Friday, October 16. According to the Novi Sad portal 021, as relayed by FoNet, private security and police are guarding the equipment.
The same day, the Kreni-promeni movement published reports from employees of Dunav Insurance, who say they are being pressured to attend the rally. The reports also name Bojan Raicevic, chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board and an SNS official from Belgrade’s Vracar district. None of these claims has been independently verified.
What is known about the preparations at Trg Slobode?
Construction of the stage began on Wednesday, October 14, in the afternoon, with regular and municipal police present. By morning the square was closed off with a fence and the stands were in place. According to 021, it is the first announced SNS rally in Novi Sad since the railway station canopy collapsed, killing 16 people. We previously reported on the event, when the SNS and the radicals called for a rally in Novi Sad on October 16.
The Serbian Radical Party called on members and supporters to come to Trg Slobode and back list number one. Some official SNS accounts shared the same call. Students, for their part, urged Novi Sad residents to ignore the rally entirely, saying they are building their struggle on truth, arguments and nonviolence.
Sources differ on the start time. FoNet reports that Aleksandar Vucic announced on Instagram on Wednesday that the rally would begin at 6 p.m. Portal 021 cited unofficial information of a 5 p.m. start and a duration of two to three hours.
What are Dunav Insurance employees reporting?
According to a Kreni-promeni statement, employees told the movement by email that managers had been ordered to secure workers’ attendance at the rally, with a warning that a list would be kept of those who do not show up. The testimonies the movement relays say:
“Sector directors got an order from the top of the company to blackmail employees into coming to the rally. This time, a list will be kept of those who don’t come.”
For now, the claim about the list rests only on the movement and the employees it quotes. One of them, in a testimony the movement relays, also describes what he says is happening on the company’s premises:
“On the fifth floor they literally turned one meeting room into an election headquarters. Party work is being done, company phones are being handed out for botting, literally a call center for the SNS is being set up, company cars are being used, and everything else that can be offered in resources for party activities.”
According to the same reports, the order came from the top of the company. Kreni-promeni states that Raicevic, who was appointed chairman of the Dunav Insurance Supervisory Board on April 29, 2026, as the official biography on the company’s website confirms, is involved in organizing workers’ attendance.
What has the movement published before?
Kreni-promeni has published similar reports from Dunav Insurance employees ahead of earlier SNS rallies. In March, employees claimed they were forced to declare whether they would attend the rally at Belgrade Arena on March 21, and managers, as they put it, demanded that they sign up on lists. Those who refused faced, according to these claims, the threat of demotion or losing their jobs. The movement recorded a similar pattern before the June 27 rally.
The texts we reviewed contain no response from Dunav Insurance, Raicevic or the SNS to the new allegations. The rally at Trg Slobode is scheduled for Friday, October 16.
