More pro-regime television simultaneously broadcast a program in which a video of 12 activists from Novi Sad was played as a kind of prelude to the "15 for 15" protest that was held in Belgrade in March, and they ended up in prison as a kind of political defendants. Since then, the public has been asking the question - how did the Security and Information Agency get the audio recording of the conversation from the premises of the Movement of Free Citizens in Novi Sad. The answer to this question can be found in the indictment brought against the activists by the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad, which "Insider" obtained on the basis of the Law on Free Access to Information.
Almost the entire indictment is based on the recording of the conversation that the accused activists had in the evening hours of March 12 this year in the premises of the PSG board in Novi Sad. The conversation lasted several hours, and everything was recorded by the BIA.
The transcript of that conversation is part of the BIA Report on the Results of the Application of a Special Measure, which forms the backbone of the indictment. The report was submitted to the court on March 14, the day before the scheduled protest, but the indictment describes how the BIA came to be wiretapping the premises of the opposition political party in the first place.
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Footage obtained by chance
The indictment draws the conclusion that the BIA did not target the 12 activists who are now being charged with multiple crimes against the constitutional order, but that they monitored only one person. At the same time, as the Insider was confirmed by several sources, that person is not on the indictment at all, but is being monitored for completely different reasons. It follows that the BIA recorded the conversation of Novi Sad activists completely by accident.
That person, whose identity was blacked out in the indictment submitted to Insider, has been under BIA measures since May 22, 2024. Which means that the BIA was monitoring one person for a full ten months before the video was made.
Authoritarian government
The case of five detained PSG activists and one from STAVA in Novi Sad is a picture of the regime's concentrated acid for the dissolution of Serbia. Almost everything is there: the BIA illegally eavesdrops on the parliamentary party, the regime's media accuses, judges and judges, the courts with their tails bent and do what they are told by the kleptocratic and authoritarian government, he wrote about this case Filip Schwarm, editor-in-chief of the weekly "Vreme".
"Unfortunately, the price of this intimidation of Serbia and the showing of the muscles of the shaken Vučić is paid by the political prisoners of Novi Sad with their mental and physical health, but not only with that. Even Stalin himself would not be ashamed of the cynicism, meanness and absence of minimal morality in this staged process," he added.
A total of 12 people were charged with these crimes. Immediately before the protest in Belgrade, the police arrested five PSG members Davor Stefanović, Mladen Cvijetić, Srđan Đurić, Marija Vasić and Lado Jovović, as well as the activist of the STAV movement (Students Against Authoritarian Government) Lazar Dinić. The six of them spent several months both under house arrest and under house arrest, and only recently were they released to defend themselves.
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