[Serbia] Protests: Peaceful protest

Summary

Single-source ACLED detection — awaiting independent verification. On April 1, 2025, more than 20 students and citizens gathered at several locations in Cacak, Serbia, in peaceful protests against the use of Long Range Acoustic Devices on demonstrators in Belgrade on March 15 and condemning an attack on a university dean in Nis on March 30. The protest was classified as low severity with no reported violence.

Supply chain impact

No commodities or chokepoints are directly mapped to this event; second-order effects depend on how the situation escalates. The peaceful nature and small scale of the demonstration suggests minimal immediate disruption to regional logistics or trade flows.

Watch points

• Monitor for expansion of protests to larger cities or transportation hubs that could affect regional logistics
• Track government response measures that might impact broader civil order or academic institutions