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After two and a half years since the report and a year after the trial, the “Jutko case” has come to an end. According to the Krusevac High Court decision, Milutin Jelicic Jutka was sentenced to three months in prison for the crime of illicit sexual activity. Marija Lukic, a victim and former associate of Jelicic, says the verdict is a big step for all women in Serbia, and that powerful locals like Jelicic are not escaping justice.
More than two years have passed since Marija Lukić posted a portion of the 15,000 SMS messages on Facebook, which she received from her then superior Milutin Jeličić Jutka in a two-year period. The trial first started on Bruce. But due to the electrified atmosphere in front of the court, which several times threatened to escalate into a physical confrontation between Jelicic supporters and the organizations that came to support Marija Lukic, the process was moved to Krusevac in July last year.
At trial, Jelicic persistently claimed that it was an attempt to discredit him politically, as well as that anyone could send messages from his official phone. Jelicic denied all the charges during the trial. The applications submitted by Marija Lukić, as well as by other women from Brus, did not reach the courts due to obsolescence or lack of evidence.
Marija Lukić told N1 that after everything that happened to her before and during the trial, she was satisfied with the verdict. Because, as he explained, although the three-month sentence seems small, it still isn’t, because in the past powerful politicians have rarely been punished.
“I think this means that women must denounce violence and have the conviction that it will end as it should. And that they understand that no one is unreachable for justice,” says Marija Lukić.
They say that Marija Lukić is the first person who managed to beat Jeličić. A man who managed to overcome all the changes of government in Serbia and remain at the helm of Bruce for 20 years.
“If I knew someone and they asked me, and if the accusation is not presented and he is not convicted, I would say that I did not leave that possibility. I reached the end regardless of the pressure, because my goal was to take the case to the end and to be condemned. For all women, even those who did not support me, “Lukic said.
The people of Bruce are reluctant to comment on the verdict, which sentenced the most powerful man in this place to prison.
Commenting on the verdict, that is, the confirmation of the verdict, which means that Jelicic must go to prison, lawyer Borivoje Borovic said it was “the first case of a government man being sent to prison, and referred to the highest officials of this country. “
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