Activists of several non-governmental organizations and citizens and several locals of the Roma settlement "Marko Orlovic", on the eve of Human Rights Day, protested in front of a wall erected in front of a part of that settlement [2]. 

Activists see the wall as a ghettoization of the Roma settlement, as stated in a statement from 22 non-governmental organizations demanding the urgent removal of the wall, Snezana Jakovljevic, president of the Peščanik Women's Association, told reporters. She recalled that the wall, 120 meters long and 2 meters high, supposedly erected for noise protection, was the first and only such wall in Krusevac and was built to cover the Roma settlement [2]. 

"The Belgrade Roma Center for Women and Children" Gives "sees the erection of this wall as one form of violence, " said the president of the association, Nada Djurickovic, adding that the banner they issued read "Discrimination is the beginning of violence, and violence is a crime". She spoke to Roma women living in the settlement just before the protests, to find out, as she said, how the wall  was built to segregate the settlement, and reported that they literally told her: “We feel like we are in a cemetery, we are isolated, children are scared and somehow it seems to them that they have been rejected by all the other inhabitants of this city" [2]. 

The Roma women told her that the children were disturbed, that they now feel at school and at school that they are different and isolated because they come from behind a wall, as, as they said, "they are from another planet". "I think the purpose of this is to scare and the message is - you are unwanted here," she said. The protest participants carried banners "Stop racism", "Fascist darkness into a hole", "Against racism", "Racism is a crime". Several villagers participated in the protest, and one of them said many more would come, but they did not know about the protest [2].