The first basic public prosecutor's office in Belgrade started preliminary investigations against the Unit for the Security of Certain Persons (JZO) and its commander. Mark Kricka, in connection with the illegal detention of participants protest in the garage of the Government of Serbia, says the lawyer and vice-president of LSV Aleksandar Olenik.
As Olenik explained, the Prosecutor's Office will first hear the victims who were "kidnapped" by members of the JZO at the protest on August 14, and were tortured and abused in the garage of the Government of Serbia.
"The first basic public prosecutor's office in Belgrade certainly does not have the assistance of the police and they do this independently, based on the statements that these children and young people gave in their defense, based on what was in the media, and based on what the prosecutors themselves heard and saw," Olenik told N1.
Although this is a rare practice in Serbia, Olenik emphasizes that prosecutors have the right "to react immediately, not to wait for the police, when they see something on television or on the street that could be a criminal offense."
"There is mostly no such thing. This is one of the rare examples that the prosecution has started, initiated pre-criminal proceedings against those who wear uniforms, even though they were not wearing them at the time, and without the assistance of the police, because they cannot do otherwise, because the police will certainly not assist them to accuse the police," Olenik points out.
Several participants of the protest held on August 14 stated that members of the JZO illegally deprived them of their freedom on the street, took them to the garage of the Government of Serbia building where they forced them to kneel, stomped on them, hit them, slapped them, took away and broke their mobile phones, threatened to shoot them in the head.
Student Nikolina Sinđelić was treated most harshly who disclosed that Kricak personally slapped her and hit her head against the wall, as well as that he threatened to "undress her and rape her in front of everyone".
On August 26, lawyer Aleksandar Ivanović, who represents student Nikolina Sinđelić, filed a criminal complaint against Kričko.
Source: H1