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The Belgrade First Basic Prosecutor’s Office rejected the criminal complaint of the KRIK portal and the journalist Bojana Pavlović against unknown men because their phone was confiscated in June this year.
His phone was confiscated because he photographed the son of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, Danilo Vučić, in a Belgrade cafe, in the company of Aleksandar Vidojević, a hooligan whom the police identified as a member of the “Kavač clan”.
Portal KRIK announced today that the prosecutor Vojkan Ilić determined that the journalist was not in danger, that the police did not arrest her, but did not reveal who were the people who intercepted her and stole her phone.
In the decision to reject the report, the prosecutor “incorrectly stated that the scene was not covered by cameras” and did not question Vidojevic, Vucic or other persons designated by the journalist to the police, so she will appeal the prosecutor’s decision, she writes KRIK.
The prosecution alleges that the journalist, who was surrounded by seven strangers, and one of them took the phone from her hand, was not in danger, but it was “her subjective feeling.”
“Objectively, the threat must be serious and concrete.” he was elected deputy chief of the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade six months ago.
The KRIK journalist was detained by the police after she photographed the president’s son with Vidojevic in a Cvetni trg cafe in Belgrade. They identified her and said she had to wait for the patrol and that they would stop her.
Then two men approached, one of whom took the phone from the journalist’s hand as she tried to call the editor, and the policemen did not react.
“He told him he didn’t have to explain anything because he was a civilian. The phone was returned to him only after Vidojevic approached the group and told the men to return the phone and allow the journalist to leave. There was no more cops, no patrol that was supposed to come, “recalls KRIK.
Two weeks after the incident, KRIK filed a criminal complaint asking the police to determine who were the men who intercepted the journalist: they were really civil servants, were they on duty, why were they arrested and what was their relationship to the men they took away your phone.
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