The exit festival comes out of Serbia after supporting student protests

One of the largest music festivals in Europe is the pulling out of Serbia with organizers who blame “undemocratic pressure”.

The exit festival will hold its 25th anniversary in the country between 10 and 13 July, but said that “there will be the last”.

The organizers say the Serbian authorities stopped state funding, and some sponsors were “forced to respond under pressure from the state.”

Say this is due to the support of the festival for permanent Movement protest against corruption under the guidance of students in Serbia.

Representatives of the Provincial Cultural Secretariat dismissed the allegations, accusing the financial pressure that he was “unable to support”.

The festival, which took place in the Petrovaradin Fortress in the second city of Serbia, Novi Garden, raised 200,000 visitors last year.

The exit has its roots in the pro -democratic protest mode, which eventually led to Slobodan Miloshavich in the 2000 presidential election.

This activist continues, and every year he gave the topic, ranging from “stop human trafficking” to “loud and strange.”

After the crash in November at the new cardiac railway station – where 16 people died when the concrete canopy collapsed – the students started protests, and the festival offered them their support.

This varied from the accession of students on the marches of protest to provide “food, sleeping bags and other essentials” and publishing reports on social media support and output.

Dusson Kovatsevich, founder, says that this has now come from great financial costs for the festival, but “Freedom has no price”.

In a statement about the decision To get out of Serbia 25 years later, he urges people to remember “not for his end but for his unity. For love. For freedom”.

It is unclear whether the festival will seek to move to another country, and if so.

The title action for many years included white strips, Arctic monkeys and treatment.

Next month, the prodigy returns to the sixth performance at the festival, as well as the Sex Pistols with the participation of Frank Carter and the French and -Jeani and Producer DJ Snake.

The output won two awards of the European Festival of the Year and grew to become one of the largest multi -day musical events of the continent.

Daril Fiadek, who manages Lebo on the basis of Belgrade, says the festival had a huge impact on Serbia’s creative scene.

“It opened the eyes of the international audience, bringing many foreigners who could have negative – or not even – the impression of Serbia,” he says.

“Exit has helped Serbia get to a good place with live music and culture, sparing in many other festivals, booker and events.”