Head office Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade - the sixth floor of the Palace of Justice. Bright and spacious corridors filled with greenery, dominated by the wall on which the flag of the country of Serbia is drawn.
Neat and tiled corridors seem cold, almost sterile, contrary to the intrigues that are brewing in them and the offices to which they lead.
In recent years, the main result of the prosecutors' work, instead of dealing with corruption, has been the persecution of dissidents and political opponents of the regime. Get arrested for tweeting.
On the other hand, all the dust that disappeared from the corridors of the prosecution seems to have settled on the folders with evidence against corrupt powerful people.
How Bojana Savović was replaced
Somewhere in these offices there should also be a public prosecutor Bojana Savović. She was an expert in the fight against corruption, uncompromising and incorruptible. The general public found out about her when she was dismissed after the extensive investigation she led against the corrupt team in the case of Elektrodistribucija Srbije.
She was punished by being transferred to the General Crime Unit. And then to the juvenile department. The dismissal of prosecutor Savović caused a scandal in the public because of a bunch of untruths that her bosses were telling.
Here they are looking in amazement as we ask where the office of prosecutor Savović is. A young woman approaches us and says: "That department for juveniles is here on the sixth floor, that's where the other prosecutors sit, but not her. She's on the fourth floor."
"Where they come and bring the suspects for interrogations, you will see a crowd in the corridor, we have investigative offices there, we don't do case preparation there, we only question the clients. You will see a bigger toilet for clients, turn and there are offices and then you will find it at the end of the corridor. There is a small office there. They put her there. There are a few of them that are 'placed' like that. We jokingly call it the 'Language Department', you know what I mean, remember the series Happy people. "
They wanted to put her in a coffin.
When we finally found Bojana Savović, we started talking to Vreme.
"Although they are trying with all their might to hide me from the public, to physically separate me from my colleagues, I guess they don't spoil, I work even more dedicatedly only in the interest of that public. "Those who are in charge and want to decide our lives are not allowed to get out of their company cars, let alone walk the streets of their city alone," she says.
"With shifts and transfers, they wanted to put me in a bind, and it turned out that through cases of juvenile delinquency, I can see more clearly how much damage has been done to this society, and what awaits us all," adds Savović.
The move didn't silence her. She raised her voice. The brave stood by her, name and surname - petitions, protests. The first rebellion in the history of the Serbian judiciary broke out. A storm arose that does not subside.
And so the woman in the little room on the fourth floor is known outside of Serbia. And her voice is stronger than ever.
**Read the entire interview with Bojana Savović in the new issue of "Vremena", which hits newsstands on Thursday (June 5). Or do **subscribe to the digital or print edition of Vremena.
