Student Blockades, Belgrade, Dec. 16 2024 (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)
The driver who severely injured a student protester at a January demonstration in Belgrade with her vehicle received a pardon decreed by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, the Third Basic Court confirmed on Aug. 4 for KRIK -- the Crime and Corruption Reporting Network.
Vucic announced this decision last month. On Aug. 1, the court dismissed all charges against the driver and she will not be criminally prosecuted.
The driver was initially charged with attempted murder, which carries a sentence of ten or more years. Nenad Stefanovic, head prosecutor at the Belgrade Higher Prosecutor's Office, downgraded the indictment to a major act against general safety, which carries a sentence of up to five years.
According to KRIK, the case had been transferred to a lower court -- the Third Basic Court in Belgrade, and to a different prosecutor, while the defendant was released from detention, where she had been since January.
Earlier, Vucic pardoned four activists of the Serbian Progressive Party who were on trial for severely injuring a student in Novi Sad late in January, breaking her jaw.
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