Almost five years ago, when the Minister of Justice of Romania wanted to remove the head of the Anti-Corruption Directorate, Laura Kovesi, rivers of people flooded Romanian cities in protest marches.
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Serbia is not Romania, Koveši unscrupulously filed charges against non-combatant Romanian rulers before they wanted to get rid of her, and deputy prosecutors Bojana Savović and Jasmina Paunović have just begun to untangle the tangle of corruption in the EPS (which is why they were urgently removed from the case), but for Serbian notions, on this gloomy working day at 15 p.m., an unexpectedly large number of people gathered to support them, enough to comfortably completely close the big intersection of Nemanjina and Knez Miloš in front of the Government of Serbia.
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At the beginning of the meeting, lawyer Čedomir Kokanović defined the demands of the protest gathering: that the dismissed prosecutors return to work, and the "corrupt" state public prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac and the head of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade Nenad Stefanovic resign.
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The deadline to fulfill these demands is five days, otherwise the protests will "radicalize" and spread to the whole of Serbia.
Kokanović said that this is not a "political" gathering, but that it is about legal issues of essential importance for the country.
From the Government, the gathering moved a hundred meters further along Nemanjina to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic.
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There, lawyer Ivan Ninić called Dolovac a "parasite", that he has been "in hibernation" since 2010 and that the legal system of Serbia "does not remember a bigger drone and parasite" than her.
He also said that Dolovac and Stefanović must be called to "institutional responsibility".
Lawyer Božo Prelević said that the gathering of support for the prosecutors Bojana Savović and Jasmina Paunović does not concern their personal or labor rights, but the fight for the rule of law because the prosecutor should not be a branch of the government, but a branch of the citizens, and that is why the streets "should let half of Belgrade come out", and whoever doesn't understand that doesn't deserve better.
The other speakers demanded the same, demanding the introduction of the "rule of law" in the "hijacked institutions".
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, during a guest appearance on RTS the other day, practically exonerated Nenad Stefanović, calling the demands for his removal a "political hunt".
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