Due to the alleged attack on members of the military policeCobra", on August 13, when there were clashes between citizens and supporters Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) moved from Novi Sad's Stražilovska Street to Liberation Boulevard, another person was arrested.
The Moj Novi Sad portal reported that it will arrested to be brought before the prosecutor on Sunday, August 24, at 10 a.m.
As announced by the Moj Novi Sad portal, F. Č. was arrested. who was called by the police based on a video published in the tabloids, which shows a man with his back turned and putting a helmet on his head.
Firecrackers, cannon shots are heard around him and he sees that the surroundings are red from the smoke of pyrotechnic devices, since that evening he came from the incidents when SNS supporters shot fireworks at another group of gathered citizens.
Legal representatives F. Č. they state for the Novi Sad media that he was detained on Friday, and that he is charged with the crime for which the six citizens who were detained on Friday, August 15, are also suspected.
Five of those previously detained were remanded in custody and are in the Klisa prison, and one was banned from leaving the apartment due to his health condition.
What is he charged with?
F. C. It is suspected that on August 13, at around 22.30:XNUMX p.m. on the Boulevard of Liberation, "to the detriment of members of the Serbian Armed Forces, using objects suitable for causing injuries (sticks, oysters, etc.) on several occasions, together with other suspected persons, struck the aforementioned injured persons on the head and body, as a result of which seven of them suffered physical injuries, for which they were taken to the Clinical Center of Vojvodina for further treatment," according to the My Novi Sad portal.
The senior public prosecutor in Novi Sad, Rajko Vukosavljević, qualified the event as "aggravated attempted murder".
The defense lawyers point out that in this case "tabloids are judging citizens", that people from Novi Sad "who have no blemishes behind them are arrested based on what was published in the pro-regime media", they are put in custody "without any evidence", which "violated the presumption of their innocence".
"We believe that actions of this type, carried out at a time of intense public gatherings and protests, can only be interpreted as a means of intimidation," the defense lawyers said earlier, adding that it can be concluded from the record that a 26-year-old young man, who has no experience in martial arts, injured seven members of the Serbian Armed Forces whose job it is to protect protected persons in the country.
What happened in Novi Sad?
During the protest held on August 13, at the back entrance to the building where one of the premises of the Novi Sad SNS is located, one person took out a gun after a conflict between two opposing parties.
The Minister of Internal Affairs, Ivica Dacic, confirmed a day later that it was a member of the Serbian Army, Vladimir Brkušanin, who was "on official duty to secure a protected person".
Source: My Novi Sad/N1