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The prosecution ordered the arrest of Zoran Đajić

April 10, 2025, 18:03 PM KS
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The Prosecutor's Office ordered the arrest of Zoran Đajić for his post on the X social network, with which, as they say, he threatens the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, with death.

On the day when the Peščanika columnist was arrested Dejan Ilic, when it is four people arrested on suspicion of damaging tractors parked near Pionirski Park in Belgrade between March 14 and 15 this year, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade ordered the arrest of Zoran Đajić.

The Chief Public Prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade issued a mandatory instruction to the Special Prosecutor for High-Tech Crime to order the police to arrest Z. Ð. due to the existence, as stated, of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of Endangering the security of the President of the Republic.

"Z.Ð. is suspected to have sent death threats to the President of the Republic on his profile on the X social network, stating: 'My position is clear - the people should vote for the death penalty for Vučić - I would not want it to happen that someone later releases him from the insane asylum and starts gathering Nazis and criminals around him again. Serbs have a short memory, so just in case - the Hawthorn stake will come!'" the statement of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office states.

Are there elements of the mentioned criminal act in the publication?

Belgrade lawyer Marko Pantić is of the opinion that such a publication does not have all the elements of the criminal offense of Endangering the security of the President of the Republic in order for it to exist.

"My opinion is, based on the current judicial practice, that in that case not all the elements for that criminal offense were acquired and that, if there was a trial for that criminal offense, he could not be convicted. I say this from my practice, as well as from some other cases known in the media, where lawyers talked about it," Pantić explained to "Vreme".

As he explains, it happened that, for example, someone in the virtual world wrote to journalists "you should be killed" or "you should be slaughtered", and many accusations were dismissed and the prosecution was of the opinion that it was not a threat.

"It didn't say "I'll kill you", but "you should be killed", so it's not a direct threat, but someone states what should happen to someone. In this regard, I believe that what Đajić wrote, that this publication does not have the characteristics of this or any other criminal act."

"The only institution that will assess whether it is a criminal offense or not is the court," explains Pantić.

As he adds, people active in public life should certainly refrain from such comments.

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