Some protest, others back Belgrade Waterfront project

BELGRADE - Two groups of citizens gathered on Sunday outside the Belgrade Cooperative building - where the Belgrade Waterfront project contract had been signed earlier in the day - with one group protesting against the signing of the contract and the other backing it.

Those who opposed the project carried posters saying "Let us not drown Belgrade" and "Belgrade does not want a bourgeois waterfront district", greeting some ministers with whistles and chants of "Treason, treason!"

The citizens who gathered to back the Belgrade Waterfront project applauded city officials, the UAE investors and ministers and later joined them for a tour of the new Sava Nova building, where an exhibition space will be opened to promote the Belgrade Waterfront project, worth around EUR 3.5 billion.

The signatories of the contract are the Serbian government and Belgrade Waterfront Capital Investment LLC, owned by the UAE-based Eagle Hills company.

Photo TANJUG/O. Toskic