The higher public prosecutor's office in Novi Sad filed an indictment against twelve people accusing them for the criminal offense of preparing an act against the constitutional order and security of Serbia, but also for the criminal offense of attacking the constitutional order and calling for a violent change of the constitutional order.
For the six defendants who are in detention, a proposal was submitted to the court to extend their detention. At the same time, for the six who are unavailable to the prosecuting authorities, it was proposed to be tried in absentia, the prosecution announced.
They added that it was proposed that the court, after the main trial, declare them guilty and impose the maximum prison sentences on them.
Members of the Movement of Free Citizens Mladen Cvijetić, Srđan Đurić, Marija Vasić, Lado Jovović, Davor Stefanović and activist of the Stav group Lazar Dinić are in custody. The indictment also includes activists who are outside the country Mila Pajić, Branislav Đorđević, Anja Pitulić, Jovan Dražić, Doroteja Antić and Dejan Bagarić. A warrant has been issued for them.
The six defendants in custody were arrested on March 14, the day before the big student protest in Belgrade, after the BIA recorded the conversation they had in the premises of PSG. Already in the evening of the same day, the recording of the conversation was shown on five television channels.
Veljko Milić, the lawyer of student Lazar Dinić, one of the arrested activists, said that he believes that everyone who is in custody will be released tomorrow to defend themselves, Insider writes.
He added that detention in this type of abbreviated procedure can last for a maximum of 60 days, and that deadline expires tomorrow and that it can only be extended if an indictment is filed, which he did not believe, claiming that the prosecutor's office had not completed the investigation.
PSG: No constitutional order was destroyed by casual conversation
The Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) assessed on Monday (May 12) that the filing of an indictment against five members of the PSG and seven activists of the Stav group, which accuses them of violently subverting the constitutional order, is proof of the complete subordination of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad to the interests of "an organized criminal group that has seized all power in our country", reports FoNet.
In the press release, the PSG pointed out that their members and activists of the Stav group are unjustly accused of violently subverting the constitutional order and that the indictment is based on illegally obtained evidence, which, even if it were legal, in no way indicates that there is a well-founded suspicion that the defendants are guilty of the crimes they are charged with.
"No constitutional order in the world has been destroyed by a casual conversation of twelve mostly young people, but the constitutional order of Serbia has been completely destroyed by the suppression of the judiciary and its transformation into a tool for abusing the opposition and all free-thinking people," PSG pointed out.
"Vreme" previously wrote that if the arrested activists are not released soon, it is clear that we are on the way to Belarus.
"Those people in the regime's media turned out to be more dangerous than Al-Shabaab bombers or some other prominent terrorist organization."
And, the European Parliament's Resolution on Serbia, which was adopted by a majority of votes on Wednesday (May 7), demands the release of six political prisoners in Novi Sad, members of the Movement of Free Citizens and the organization Stav.
Source: Insider/Vreme/FoNet
