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Vladimir Jovanovic, a member of the Democratic Party and former president of the local Backo Gradiste community, was sued by 17 councilors of the ruling majority in Becej because, as they claimed in the lawsuits, insults were proffered in a closed group on Facebook. They all asked for 50 thousand dinars in compensation, so if the verdicts are in his favor, Jovanovic could be fined more than one million dinars with court costs. At the hearing in the Becej Court of First Instance, party leaders also supported him.
A total of 17 private criminal lawsuits arrived at his home in October. All because of a post on Facebook in May, in the closed group “Foro Político de Becej”. A profile of the profile was published in his name, in which the councilors, without saying their first and last names, are called morons and a voting machine.
“I don’t feel guilty at all, because I don’t see that I have insulted anyone at all. After all, that Facebook profile was opened by the Democratic Party, that is, my associates in 2012, when we had an election campaign, and anyone who came to that profile could enter that profile. I gave the code of my page, “said Vladimir Jovanović.
He claims he did not write the disputed state, and the lawsuits that followed because of him, he adds, damaged his health. They are the latest in a series of pressures that, he says, he suffers from the change of government in 2012.
“There was an attempt at blackmail, there were all kinds of threats and everything, and death stickers were even posted in the village. I can’t say it was that government directly, but someone put it up,” he says.
Source: H1Who “sadly informed family and friends that he passed away in 2013”, and even indicated the date and time of the funeral, is a question that was never answered by the police. Today, after another in a series of court hearings, friends and fellow party members supported him.
“When progressives came to power, they promised to fight corruption and crime and that was the basic element of support for citizens. Instead, they began to use the levers of power to deal with political opponents and when faced with someone with unjustified criminal charges, it is a kind of political pressure, it is a message to political opponents, “said Zoran Lutovac, leader of the Democratic Party.
Until July 2019, Jovanović was the head of the local Bačko Gradište community. So even at the time the comment was posted on the social network. Meanwhile, a new government has been formed in Becej, so its list of prosecutors includes former, but still current, councilors from the ruling majority.
The 17 councilors who filed a private criminal complaint against Jovanović come from SNS and POKS. All their demands are the same, and so are the responses to calls from journalists to comment on the trial: silence.
They all have a common lawyer, Radomir Nešić, who told H1 that he cannot comment on the ongoing process, but that he does not have the client’s approval for that.
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