Some context on why he's cycling all the way to France

The guy in the video is one of many Serbian students currently cycling to Strasbourg to raise awareness about a growing protest movement back home.

It all started on November 1, 2024, when part of the recently “reconstructed” Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 16 people. The project had been promoted as a success, but students uncovered serious signs of corruption and negligence.

When they organized a memorial, they were attacked. No arrests were made.
Since then, students have occupied universities across Serbia, organizing through open voting, and calling for:

• Full transparency on the train station project
• Arrests of those who attacked students
• Charges against protesters to be dropped
• A 20% increase in university funding

They’ve been living in campus buildings for over five months, funded only by public donations. There’s no central leader — it’s a decentralized movement run through student plenums.

Because state-controlled media frames them as violent, foreign-funded extremists, students began walking and cycling across Serbia to reach small towns and show people what they actually stand for.

This ride to Strasbourg is an attempt to break the information barrier even further — to get European institutions to pay attention.