Saturday’s rally was expected to be the largest since the tragedy and is the culmination of a year of upheaval in the Balkan country, which has seen student-led activists regularly taking to the streets to demand justice for the victims. Crackdowns on the activists have triggered accusations of brutality by the authorities and calls for early elections. Corruption is widely considered to be a possible factor in the roof collapse, which is subject to investigation. So far, 13 people have been charged but no trial date has been set. On Saturday, Novi Sad’s Freedom Boulevard, which leads to the site of the disaster, was filled with tractors, motorcycles, and banners calling for accountability and the resignation of President Aleksandar Vučić’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). At 11:52 a.m., the exact time when part of the Novi Sad railway station roof collapsed a year ago, thousands of protesters and mourners across the city stopped for a 16-minute silence—one minute for each of the victims. The crowd stood still along Freedom Boulevard and around the station, many holding candles and flowers. Dijana Hrka, the mother of 27-year-old victim Stefan Hrka, told those gathered in Novi Sad that she was still awaiting justice for her son. Since the tragedy, she has become a public figure, and now intends to go on hunger strike in protest at what she says is a lack of accountability. “Today is the saddest day for all of us, today Novi Sad is crying, but I am fighting so that no one has to cry again, not a single mother, not a single sister,” she said, quoted by Serbian news network N1.