The batterers at the Marakana and in Riga have been identified, there are videos of the brutal excess of the necessary force by gendarmes and members of the Police Brigade... And the prosecution does not even write
After almost every protest in Serbia and police brutality, are identified thugs, who attack people in the name and at the expense of the government. These are en masse, as in the last case of the Maracana attack, people who work in the security of the government or are close to the regime and its collaborators.
In addition to them, every protest gave rise to a criminal complaint for brutal police behavior. However, there is no epilogue in court.
Vučić's heroes
At the beginning of the student protests, some people were prosecuted for violence, including the batterer who dislocated the student's jaw, and the woman who ran over the student on the street during a peaceful protest. Nevertheless, Aleksandar Vučić pardoned all of them, and he still called the batterers from Novi Sad "heroes".
Although prosecutors have the right to react immediately when they see police brutality or problematic behavior of civilians on television, this rarely happens in practice.
"Currently, I have three cases against police officers in the Mladenovac, Voždovac and Zaječar police stations," says lawyer Aleksandar Olenik. "In Zaječar, and this was also in the media, they beat a minor because he did not stop when the police were called, and in Voždovac, a father and son. The prosecution is generally uninterested and inactive when the suspects are police officers, in half of the cases they do not act, and in the other half they openly side with the police and prevent the indictment, and then the court also gets involved to help."
Going back to the time of Milošević
Olenik adds that the attitude towards police brutality has improved a lot in Serbia from 2000 to 2015, when the Republic's Prosecutor's Office initiated many cases. However, in the last ten years, he describes the situation as "returning to the time of Milošević".
"Black-shirted beaters under the protection of the head of the SNS"
What he advises people who are injured is to go to a doctor immediately and get medical records. However, even then, as a rule, it happens that the prosecutor's office requests new orders, so the lawyer has to initiate disciplinary proceedings because of this and go to the media.
"It is very difficult or impossible to accuse a police officer of abuse because the whole system protects him," adds Olenik. "The prosecutor's office without the police does nothing, and internal control practically does not exist."
Judicial police
The only remedy he thinks is possible in these situations is judicial police, which Serbia does not have.
In the event that it is formed, it would not be commanded by the MUP, that is, the minister himself, but by another department, namely the Ministry of Justice. For example, if there had been judicial police, they could have reacted in the case of Savamala. Because, in that case, the police should have conducted an investigation against themselves.
The case of the illegal demolition of several buildings in Hercegovačka Street in the Savamala district of Belgrade has not been fully resolved even after nine years. At that time, private buildings in a Belgrade neighborhood were demolished in the night immediately after the parliamentary and local elections held on April 24, 2016. As the security guard of a company told the morning after the demolition, the buildings were razed to the ground by a group of people masked as "phantoms", equipped with excavators and clubs, who previously tied him up.
This most important eyewitness has since passed away. At the time of the demolition, the mayor of Belgrade was Siniša Mali, and the prime minister was Aleksandar Vučić. The Minister of Internal Affairs was Nebojša Stefanović.
The case of Marko Kričko
A rare case in which the prosecution, in this case the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, has started to work is a criminal complaint against Units for the security of certain persons (JZO) and its commander Mark Kricka.
The preliminary investigation procedure was initiated due to report on illegal arrests of protest participants in the garage of the Government of Serbia.
The prosecution will first hear the victims who were "abducted" by members of the JZO during 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 made by young people in their defense, based on what was in the media, and based on what the prosecutors themselves heard and saw," said Olenik earlier.
On August 26, lawyer Aleksandar Ivanović, who represents student Nikolina Sinđelić, submitted a criminal complaint against Kričko for insults, threats of rape and assault. Due to this case, the Serbia Center (Srce) party also filed a complaint against Kričko and JZO.
A group of individuals has created two websites where public procurement of the Telecom and IT sectors can be searched and compared. They invite the media, experts and citizens to review the documentation and submit reasoned observations
Very soon it could become obvious whether Milan Radoičić has left Serbia or not
The hospital formed a commission for an extraordinary expert check and informed the health inspection. Cases of death during childbirth in Serbia rarely receive a judicial epilogue.
Two unions of public services supported the request of FDU students for information about RTS employees, since claims appeared in the public that it was a request for "files". The students say they are looking for "public truth about public service."
Among those pardoned is the man who attacked a citizen who came to ask about the street in the office of the mayor of Kosjerić in April. The pardon applies only to one of the two offenses, and the injured party announces a constitutional appeal.
At the moment when the institutions of the Republic are destroyed, when Vučić's octopus is still alive, when people are disgusted by the injustice and the stench left behind by the Essenes regime, we have, as Machiavelli said, only civic virtue as the fuel with which we can return to the beginning
The four independent members of REM are an example of perseverance and civic responsibility. Rodoljub Šabić even, upon leaving the premises of REM, after the sentencing of the Informer, experienced that the Essenes insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet. But that too will soon be over
Vučić pardoned the batterers and Dijana Hrkalović. The election winners should abolish the sultan's power that allows one man to run afoul of the entire judicial system
Interview: Branko Stamenković, public prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office
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