Maja Popovic(BETAPHOTO/SASA DJORDJEVIC/MO)
Serbian Justice Minister Maja Popovic on Nov. 20 described the opposition protest outside the court and prosecutor’s office building in Novi Sad as unprecedented form of pressure on the judicial system in Serbia’s history.
Speaking to TV Pink, Popovic said that on Nov. 19, opposition MPs in the Serbian Parliament and the Vojvodina Provincial Assembly and Novi Sad aldermen had gathered outside the court building in an attempt to prevent judges and prosecutors from doing their job. She also said that protesters had treated judges and prosecutors going to their workplace in a dramatic manner.
CCTV footage, she said, showed opposition MPs and aldermen outside the court building, wishing to provoke chaos and exert pressure.
On Nov. 19 and 20, MPs in the Serbian and Vojvodina parliaments and Novi Sad aldermen blocked the entrance to the prosecutor’s office building, demanding release of activists arrested during an earlier protest in Novi Sad, which demanded responsibility for the collapse of an outside concrete canopy at the local Railway Station, killing 15 people.
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