After the prosecution, in Serbia we also have a kind of "judicial coup". This is how the government sees prosecutors and judges who stick to the law and refuse to work according to the orders of the executive branch. Chief prosecutor Nenad Stefanović is Aleksandar Vućić's main trump card in ensuring that the judiciary carries out his will
Under the accompanying message "scandalous", the tabloids apostrophized four judges of the High Court in Belgrade who defected from the chief prosecutor Nenad Stefanović, that is who refuse to work according to the order "from the top". He is now the only person in the Serbian legal system whom Aleksandar Vučić still says he can reach by phone.
It will turn out that all the judges of the Department for preliminary proceedings of the High Court in Belgrade held a session where they took a position on the treatment of people protesting in the streets. They concluded that a physical attack on the police cannot be qualified as violent behavior at a public gathering, but only as an attack on an official in the performance of official duties.
With this unanimous opinion, four Belgrade judges for preliminary proceedings - Ana Milošević, Miloš Labudović and Ksenija Marić once again, this time with their colleague Marija Janković Debeljak - stood in the way of breaking the law introduced by the chief prosecutor Nenad Stefanović, writes Nova.rs.
He is very worried.
He reacted to it immediately.
"The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade expresses concern about the change in the practice of these judges in the past few months," said the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, which he heads.
As before, the VJT in Belgrade will file appeals against all disputed first-instance decisions and ask for their modification for the reasons prescribed by law, even when it comes to ordering custody.
He likes to comment on the media.
Nenad Stefanović has been the head of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office for three and a half years, which seems to have specialized in prosecuting students.
He came to this position at the end of 2021, and the Assembly of Serbia elected him for a six-year term. He is significantly more exposed in the media than his predecessor Nataša Krivokapić.
Stefanović sued the editor of Nova S, as the tabloids reported, for violating the dignity of a person. He was responding (as further reported by the media) to "spins" about the photo where he is seen with the USAID logo. KRIK also assessed as "malicious" the statement that the head of the Special Department for Suppression of Corruption of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade participated in judicial training abroad funded by USAID.
The informal group of judges and prosecutors "Defend the profession" recently demanded his resignation, and the Association of Judges and Prosecutors of Serbia, of which Stefanović is the founder, considered such a statement shameful. He is praised by journalists and editors of Informer in their broadcasts, and controversial Vaseljenska.net , for example, sees him as "the only prosecutor doing his job", writes Istinomer.
Before this job, he led numerous investigations, such as the case against the first associate witness Ljubiše Buhe Čumeta, as well as against those accused of attempted murder Milan Bek, for the first kidnapping of the "Zemun clan". He also investigated the "Potočari" case against the policemen due to the suspicion that they had revealed a state secret."
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Nenad Stefanović graduated from the Medical School in Zemun and the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade. These are the data stated in the official biography on the UST website.
He points out that he completed specialist postgraduate studies in the field of combating terrorism, organized crime and corruption at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.
He states that he obtained a certificate from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of the Federal Republic of Germany in the area of communication skills, as well as that he passed the bar exam, writes Istinomer.
In his biography, he points out that in the period 2001-2004. was a member of the Commission for the Implementation of Regulations of SO Čukarica and that he performed duties in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia (Border Inspectorate), in the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Policy, as well as in the Federal Sanitary Inspectorate.
Denying the claims from text published in NIN, in which, among other things, it is stated "how the former sanitary inspector, and then the prosecutor who criticized the chief prosecutor and the minister of justice, gained the favor of the prosecutor's top and the authorities overnight and became a trusted person for controlling proceedings", he emphasized that "he was never a member of any party or party".
He is the president of the Association of Judges and Prosecutors of Serbia, which he founded himself. From June 6, 2014, he was a deputy prosecutor in the Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, and in 2018 he moved to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, which he then officially took over from 2022.
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