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Zlatko Gigić, one of the gendarmes who lost his job according to the decision of former Police Minister Nebojša Stefanović, told H1 that he received the verdict of the Niš Administrative Court, which overturned the dismissal decision. The verdict was also announced by the “Sloga” police union.
Gigic says he sent a request to the Home Office based on the verdict to return him to work.
“I am waiting to see if he will act on the verdict,” Gigic said.
Seven gendarmes convicted of assaulting the brother of Serbian President Andrej Vučić, the brother of Finance Minister Predrag Mali and members of Kobra appealed to the Administrative Court for, they claim, illegal dismissal.
Given that they were sentenced to suspended sentences, they considered that they had the right to remain in the police service.
Earlier, they said that it was also unusual for them that their dismissals were personally signed by former Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, and not by the director of the police, Vladimir Rebic, whose direct competence is that.
Gigic, a gendarme who was wounded twice in Kosovo in 1999 and in the Land Security Zone in 2000, previously said he did not want to accept dismissal following a conviction in the attack on military police officers Andrej Vucic and Predrag Mali .
He referred to the Police Act, according to which a suspended sentence is not automatically followed by termination of employment in the police force.
“The reason is simple. We were sentenced to an eight-month suspended prison sentence with a three-year probationary period. Absolutely, in accordance with all legal acts, we must remain employed,” Gigic previously emphasized.
That fateful day, September 28, 2014, Gigić was on duty during the Pride Parade in Belgrade, when suddenly the brother of the then Prime Minister and the Mayor’s brother tried to enter the protected area, accompanied by two members of the Cobra in civilian clothes … There was a confrontation that was also recorded by the H1 camera.
Gigic believes that a message was sent to him and his colleagues that the firing decisions were signed by the minister himself. “I have not had a case in which I have received a decision from the Minister of the Interior, or the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior, with the signature of the Minister. So I think it is not common practice,” said Gigic.
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