On Thursday (April 10), the presidency of Serbia began Aleksandar Vučić announced the day before on Instagram.
As he said, all those responsible for violence in the country will be brought to justice, referring to the blockades and protests that have been going on in Serbia for almost five months.
A day later, four people accused of destroying tractors near Pionirski Park were arrested, columnist Peščanik was arrested, engineer Zoran Đajić was ordered to be arrested, the police entered the Faculty of Medicine in Nis and handed the students summonses for questioning at the police station.
Arrest for destroying a tractor
As announced by the President of Serbia, they have started arrests for destroying tractors placed around Pionirski Park at the March 15 protest.
Four people were arrested on suspicion of damaging tractors parked near Pionirski Park in Belgrade between March 14 and 15 this year, the Ministry of the Interior announced.
AD (21), DM (27), AT (20) and DC (34) were arrested, while another person who has been identified is being sought, according to the announcement.
The suspects were detained for up to 48 hours.
They are suspected of having committed the crime of violent behavior at a sports event or public gathering.
The students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering therefore called for a protest in front of the Police Department in Belgrade, because one of their former colleagues was among those arrested.
Police raid on the Faculty of Medicine in Niš
On the same day, a few hours later, about 20 plainclothes police officers entered the building of the Faculty of Medicine in Niš.
The students, who were found at Medicinsko in the afternoon, received invitations to give statements at the Police Department, and the report to the police, according to the students' claims, arrived today at 12 o'clock from the dean Aleksandar Mitić, Juzne Vesti writes.
Reporter N1 reported that about a hundred students were invited to informative talks regarding the events of this morning, when some of the employees tried to enter the university, but the students blocked the doors.
The gathered students, professors and citizens were in front of the Police Administration building while the students were being interrogated.
They dispersed when the last student was questioned and released.
On Thursday morning, the students physically prevented the employees from entering the building of that institution because yesterday at the plenum they decided to remain in the blockade until the demands are fulfilled. The plenum was held after the announcement stating that tuition compensation starts on April 15 and that the blockade is over, which the students deny and note that they voted at the plenum to continue the blockade until the demands are met.
Arrest of columnist Dejan Ilic
On Thursday, he was first arrested, then released Peščanika columnist Dejan Ilić.
The Third Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade announced earlier on Thursday that he was detained due to the existence of reasonable suspicion that he had committed the criminal offense of causing panic and disorder by "causing panic by making false claims" in the show "Move on", which was broadcast on "Nova" television on March 29, 2025.
As stated, the statement is disputed: "You have a choice - either you will open the door for those people to take refuge, and the transitional government is the one who opens the door, or you will put up with the fact that blood will flow in the streets, that we will lose I don't know how many lives and we don't know whose lives, in order to get rid of them."
Ilić was later released, Peščanik announced on the X social network.
Invitation to arrest Zoran Đajić
On the same day, the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade ordered the arrest of the engineer Zoran Đajić.
The Chief Public Prosecutor of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade issued a mandatory instruction to the Special Prosecutor for High-Tech Crime to order the police to arrest Z. Ð. due to the existence, as stated, of grounds for suspicion that he committed the criminal offense of Endangering the security of the President of the Republic.
"Z.Ð. is suspected to have sent death threats to the President of the Republic on his profile on the X social network, stating: 'My position is clear - the people should vote for the death penalty for Vučić - I would not want it to happen that someone later releases him from the insane asylum and starts gathering Nazis and criminals around him again. Serbs have a short memory, so just in case - the Hawthorn stake will come!'" the statement of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office states.
