Aleksandar Vučić, the man who had been at the helm of power in Serbia for more than twelve years, has acknowledged defeat. The overwhelming triumph of the Students' List in this Sunday's parliamentary elections, which has obtained 52% of the votes and won by an absolute majority, puts an end to a period marked by highly personalistic power, a lack of freedom of the press, and good rapport with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping. The elections, which had become a referendum on the continuity of the Serbian former president, saw participation levels not seen since the disintegration of Yugoslavia and a very high mobilization among electors residing outside the country.

Hundreds of people have been filling the streets of Belgrade for days. In the capital of Serbia, songs of celebration can be heard and flags of victory wave everywhere. These are the celebrations of Serbian students on the occasion of this Sunday's parliamentary elections. More than six million citizens are called to the polls in an election marked by the key demands of a youth fed up with the corruption surrounding the country and its institutions.

The Milan prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation last week confirming a rumor that had been circulating in Sarajevo for decades: that groups of tourists traveled to the war-besieged Bosnian capital to shoot at defenseless civilians from the hills surrounding the city. In a macabre human safariHundreds of wealthy and influential Italian personalities paid fees ranging from 80,000 to 100,000 euros to travel alongside Serbian troops and murder unarmed men, women, and children.