Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (Photo: Google maps/Prt scr)
In the morning on Feb. 3, employees of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime gathered outside the building in Belgrade to protest against the adoption of a set of controversial judicial laws, initiated by Ugljesa Mrdic, an MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party.
They said they would be gathering outside the building every morning around 9 am before scheduled court proceeding in protest against the so-called “Mrdic laws.”
On Feb. 2, prosecutors, judges and lawyers in Novi Sad gathered outside the city’s courthouse building at 11 am, protesting against the adoption of the set of judicial laws, while some Belgrade judges and lawyers have also called for a strike action.
Speaking at a gathering at the Belgrade Faculty of Law in the evening on Feb. 2, Mladen Nenadic, the chief organized crime prosecutor, said that the adopted set of judicial laws would “decimate” the capabilities of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, adding that the police were not cooperating with the Office.
He stressed that the Office had hundreds of important active legal cases and was already struggling due to insufficient number of prosecutor, while the new laws envisaged slashing the current number of prosecutors from 21 to nine.
The set of judicial laws was signed by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Jan. 30, despite criticism from European Union officials.
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