Serbian Activist Group to Protest Police Inaction After Attack

A citizens' group in Serbia's Rakovica municipality is organizing a protest to demand police accountability after one of their activists was attacked and beaten. The "Zbor Rakovice" group stated that the activist was assaulted on April 29th after distributing "Students are Winning" stickers. They claim a group of individuals forced him into a car without license plates and beat him before he was rescued by fellow activists. The group alleges that the police have failed to act, even though the victims identified their attackers, some of whom they say have prior records for violent crimes. "The police did not even start a search," the group stated in a call for the protest. They also plan to collect signatures for a petition demanding the dismissal of the Rakovica Police Station chief, Milan Peković, citing his alleged refusal to protect citizens and investigate the case. However, Serbia's Ministry of Interior has refuted these claims, calling them "malicious insinuations and untrue statements." The ministry stated that police did respond to the report filed by the activist, Vojislav Zdravkovski, and issued a statement after leaflets were posted in Rakovica "unjustly labeling the head of the Rakovica police station."

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Iz dana u dan, svedoci žive u strahu, a načelnik Policijske stanice Rakovica i dalje odbija da preduzme bilo kakve korake kako bi ih zaštitio i rasvetlio ovaj slučaj