(12 Nov 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Valjevo, Serbia - 12 November 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of protesters throwing eggs at the headquarters of lithium mining company
2. Row of people holding boxes of eggs
3. Close of eggs
4. Various of people taking eggs
5. Various of eggs being thrown
6. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Branko Ivkovic, protest organizer:
"We really don't have a choice. This is a question of life for us. Our survival. So we have to fight. In that sense, we set some deadlines - those deadlines have not been met. We demanded that company EuroLithium Balkans gets out of the territory of city of Valjevo. As they have not done so, only one thing is left for us , citizens. And that is to self-organise, us citizens, and kick them out of the territory of our town.'
7. Protester throwing eggs
8. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Branko Ivkovic, protest organizer:
"We have to radicalise our protests. We will take it step further tonight."
9. Wide of egg on street and building
10. Worker inside building
11. Police car passing
12. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Mirjana Kovacevic, protester, resident of Valjevo:
"We will not let them destroy our children. They will not dig their mine here, even if the fight cost us our lives. They will not dig."
13. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Djordje Zujovic, protester, resident of Valjevo:
"Our government decides on everything on their own - they don't even ask us anything. I think residents of Valjevo have to be asked here. Aside from the town of Loznica, we are the biggest lithium mine site (in Serbia). At least that's what we know. Lots of people are out here tonight, I think the whole city of Valjevo is against it (mine). Sometimes not everyone can come out and protest, but I am confident that we will manage to put an end to this (lithium mine project)."
14. Various of protest
STORYLINE:
Angry protesters on Tuesday threw hundreds of eggs at the headquarters of a lithium mining company that has been granted exploration rights in Serbia.
Residents of Valjevo have been holding repeated protests against EuroLithium Balkans' mine exploration in the vicinity of this western Serbian town.
Large deposits of lithium, used in electric cars, have been found in several farming areas in Western Serbia.
Organisers of the protest say that they will not hold peaceful rallies any more and that they will take action against the company.
They say they won't allow potentially environmentally harmful lithium mines to be opened in western Serbia.
"We really don't have a choice. This is a question of life for us. Our survival. So we have to fight," said organiser Branko Ivkovic.
AP video by Almir Alic
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