Prosecutor’s Office Orders Processing of Assailants Who Targeted University Students Opposing Blockades

Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade (BETAPHOTO/Ana Slovic)

Belgrade’s Higher Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the Third Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office to collaborate with the police in identifying and processing the individuals who physically attacked and injured university students Milos Pavlovic and Vladimir Balac in the evening of June 4.

Pavlovic issued a statement saying he is at the capital’s Emergency Center after being attacked along with two fellow students at Studentski Grad, Belgrade University’s student housing campus located in New Belgrade.

“We were attacked without cause, simply for being there. The feeling I had wasn’t just fear, it was terror,” the Blic daily reports Pavlovic saying.

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic has labeled the assault “horrific violence” and “lynching,” insisting that all the perpetrators will be brought to justice.

A vocal supporter of the regime and opponent of the university blockades – which began late last year and are still ongoing – Pavlovic has been protesting the blockades by camping outside Novi Dvor, which houses the president’s offices, in downtown Belgrade’s Pioneers Park.