Milica Stojanović, who is at protest in January in Belgrade, hit and seriously injured a female student with a car, was pardoned by the decision of the President of the State, Aleksandar Vučić, the Third Basic Court told KRIK.
Vučić announced the adoption of this decision last month and it was the last in a series of good news for Stojanović - as her criminal offense was first mitigated and then she was released from custody, writes KRIK.
"She did not deserve it (the trial) in any way, and for me it is terrible that as a president who until a few weeks ago had not issued a single pardon in nine years, now I have to correct the injustice caused by the prosecution and the courts". President Aleksandar Vučić said in the middle of last month commenting on the proceedings against Milica Stojanović, accused of hitting a student with a car at a protest in Belgrade.
Vučić kept his promise - he made a decision to pardon Stojanović, after which the court dismissed the indictment against her on August 1.
With that, Stojanović was completely acquitted of the crime she committed. This move is not a surprise considering that earlier decisions were made that went well with Stojanović.
The case of Milica Stojanović
Although she was originally accused of attempted murder, for which she could have received a prison sentence of 10 or more years, the chief prosecutor of the High Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, Nenad Stefanović, reduced her crime to - a serious crime against general security. With that, she could have been sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison and the case was transferred to a lower court - the Third Basic Court in Belgrade.
The change in the criminal offense was preceded by a change in the prosecutor - Stefanović took the case away from the prosecutor Jelena Belopavlović, who initially accused Stojanović of attempted murder. At that time, this prosecutor was under attack from the tabloids who, among other things, accused her of being part of "the Serbian judiciary that has broken away from the state, law, law and justice."
Then Stojanović and released from custody where she has been since January.
Vučić's pardons
This is not the only case in which the president pardoned the attackers of the students who have been protesting since November last year due to the fall of the canopy from the railway station building in Novi Sad, as a result of which 16 people died.
He recently pardoned four activists of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party who were tried for dislocating the jaw of a female student in Novi Sad at the end of January. Thus, by the decision of President Vučić, that procedure was also suspended.
Source: KRIK
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