On Wednesday (January 29), the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, brought 13 pardon decisions, it was announced from the Presidency. A few days earlier, Vučić said that the decision on pardon would fulfill the third request of the students in the blockade, which refers to the dismissal of criminal charges against the arrested and detained students at the protests, as well as the suspension of already initiated criminal proceedings. This request, by the way, was addressed to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad.
The list of those pardoned includes six students, one assistant professor at the faculty, four school principals and one auxiliary worker at the school. Among those pardoned, however, was a dean with the initials NJ from Nis.
In fact, the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, Natalija Jovanović, is the first female dean in Serbia publicly supported student protests. However, she says that she does not know for which crime she was pardoned, Juzne Vesti writes.
"He invents a process, there are no indictments, there are no trials, I am not prosecuted - he pardons me." We have reached the end. He is afraid for himself and thinks that by pardoning he can get some favor. My favor cannot be won by anyone who breaks the law. "It's probably his gesture because I'm in the public eye, so he could throw some kind of stain on me," says the dean.
A few months earlier, the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime launched an investigation against Natalija Jovanović by expanding the investigation into the case of the former state secretary in the Ministry of Education, Nebojša Ranđelović Necer. The dean believes that the pardon refers to that case, but emphasizes that she is only a suspect.
"I assume that the pardon refers to that, because in my life I was only in Court for the probate hearing and at the hearing on November 29 for the expansion of that indictment." The indictment was not filed against me, I was a suspect, not criminally prosecuted, for which he pardons me now," says Natalija Jovanović.
Source: Southern News
