Yesterday, the Serbian police arrested the editor of the "Standard" portal, Samir Rastoder, near Kraljevo, where, as reported by his editorial office, he was on a work assignment.
Along with him, the taxi driver who transported him was arrested.
The Standard wrote that Rastoder was released after the editors of the portal reported the disappearance to the Montenegrin police and, as they stated, sent messages to his number that they would treat the case as a kidnapping.
The "Standard" portal states that members of the Serbian police and the Security Information Agency (BIA) "harassed their journalist for a full six hours, searched and stripped them to the bare skin" without explanation.
"On that occasion, Rastoder was illegally searched, and his mobile phone was confiscated, which was in the hands of the agents throughout his detention, who apparently examined him in detail. Rastoder was released last night after the editorial office reported the disappearance to the Montenegrin police and sent messages to his number that they would treat the case as a kidnapping. Rastoder was on a work assignment and traveling through Kraljevo, he was stopped around 14.30:XNUMX p.m., when the police surrounded him with five cars and similar to a movie action pulled him and the driver of a taxi company, who was hired by the Standard portal, out of the vehicle," the media writes.
They claim that the police officers questioned the journalist about what he was doing in Serbia, as well as what the editor of Standarad thought about the political situation in Serbia, what he thought about their president Aleksandar Vučić, Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, then what he thought about the recognition of Kosovo by Montenegro and about the opinion about Montenegro's admission to NATO.
"All this leads to the conclusion that the interest of the BIA agents had a completely different background than the one they bluntly reported that he was allegedly moving suspiciously along the route where the protected person was passing."
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia and the BIA did not answer why Rastoder was arrested and interrogated.
The "IN4S" portal announced "that the Serbian Security Services intercepted Rastoder who was carrying 1.500 euros to an associate witness in the trial for an attempted terrorist attack against Saša Sinđelić," which the Standard denied.
On the occasion of Rastoder's arrest, the Democratic Front (DF) announced that Special State Prosecutor Milivoje Katnić hired Rastoder to transport Sinđelić to Montenegro.
That action, they claim, was prevented by the security authorities of Serbia.
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