Prosecutor: The Police Minister is pressuring the Prosecution

The Police minister Nebojsa Stefanovic commented on Wednesday that he is shocked by inactivity of the Public Prosecution. Such comments are a form of pressure on this independent body, told Insajder.net Radovan Lazic, the Chairman of the Board of Association of Public Prosecutors.

“The way these comments are formulated can be seen as a pressure on the Prosecution. This kind of language used by the Minister is at the very least a vilification,” said Lazic.
Serbian media reported on Wednesday that the Police Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said that he was “shocked” with the Prosecution’s absence of reaction regarding “open calls for a Macedonian scenario in Serbia made by some politicians.”

“How is it possible that some politicians call for violence, colored revolutions, and murder of citizens and that the Public Prosecution is not reacting“, said Minister Stefanovic.

So far, Minister Stefanovic has not had such a strict attitude toward the Prosecutor's Office when it comes to cases that have provoked much public attention, such as allegations of police monitoring of journalists, physical attacks on activists and NGO members, and of the police involvement in the demolition of Hercegovacka street.

The Minister has usually answered on the reporters’ questions about the work of the Prosecutor's Office or the Police in the aforementioned cases by urging the media not to put pressure on the institutions.

S.D.