# Don't Let Belgrade D(r)own

A citizens' initiative, later a movement, that organised protests after the demolitions in Savamala, drawing more than 20,000 people by the organisers' estimate; it described the Belgrade Waterfront contract as a surrender of sovereignty and asked the prosecutor's office to sue to have it declared null and void, with no known outcome. Prosecutors dismissed criminal complaints over the €83,000 tender for New Year lighting and Christmas trees, and a misdemeanour court penalised two of its activists for speeches at a protest.

## Affairs

- [Belgrade Waterfront – a special law and the contract with Eagle Hills](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/beograd-na-vodi-ugovor): It argued that through the agreement the state was giving up its sovereignty, and proposed that the prosecution file a lawsuit to have it declared null and void
- [Irregularities in the 2022 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-april-2022): It said a monitor was attacked in Zemun after filming SNS activists with a parallel list
- [Sale of the “Jaroslav Černi” Institute to Milenijum tim](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/jaroslav-cerni-milenijum-tim): At the opening of the bids, they claimed the outcome of the privatisation had been agreed in advance
- [Belgrade's New Year lights and the company Keep Light](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novogodisnja-rasveta): It filed criminal complaints against Mali and others over the procurement of lighting and the Christmas tree
- [Legalisation of Šapić's illegal extension in Bežanijska kosa](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/sapicev-stan): They said he was “building illegally” and was unfit for office, and backed the call for his removal
- [The Savamala case: demolition in Hercegovačka Street](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/savamala): It organised protests against the demolition at which thousands of people demanded the resignations of those responsible

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/ne-davimo-beograd  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)