Stojaković: I was arrested in Montenegro, I was in solitary confinement for 24 hours, the police said it was an order from the top

Luka Stojaković, a student at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences (FON) at the University of Belgrade, announced that he was arrested in Montenegro, that he spent 24 hours in solitary confinement, and that police officers told him that his arrest was ordered from the top.

According to several media reports, Stojaković was arrested in Montenegro on February 19th.

"After I crossed the border crossing, after about 15-20 minutes, I passed a police patrol on the right and it occurred to me why the two of them were sitting in a car and not stopping anyone. I had not committed any traffic violations and as I passed them, they turned on their lights and stopped me in the middle of the road. They immediately told me to get into their vehicle, took my documents, didn't ask me anything, just told me to take a psychoactive substance test. When we had that problem with the BIA (Security Information Agency of Serbia), the lawyer advised us not to take any psychoactive substance test from a police officer, but to only ask for a blood test. That's what I did, but the police officer told me that at that moment it was simply not possible and that I had the option to either refuse the psychoactive substance test or take it," Stojaković pointed out in a video published today on the social network Xks by his brother Lazar Stojaković.

He added that he refused the test and was deprived of his liberty for 24 hours.

"I lay in solitary confinement for 24 hours. After about 12 o'clock, a police officer came in with a piece of paper and said that my car had been temporarily seized, that I had to sign it. I signed it, when I asked why, he didn't know how to give me an answer. After 24 hours, they took me out, took me to the courthouse, I paid the fine, and after that, they took me to the car in a police van, where 12 police officers and police dogs were waiting for me. They thoroughly inspected the entire car, they shoved some microscopes into the air conditioners. They searched all my personal belongings, of course they found nothing. At one point, one of the police officers called me Lazo, so I don't know if this whole situation was set up for me or for my brother," said Luka Stojaković.

He said that the police officers invited him to go to the police station, and that he was there with them.

"They apologized to me for this situation and the torture I experienced, but that it was simply not their fault, they literally said that it was ordered from the top. Greetings to the entire Montenegrin police, they were really fair to me, I have no complaints. Let me add that we will not succumb to this influence either, that we continue our fight and wait for our demands to be fulfilled. And let me add that we are hanging out in Niš," said Luka Stojaković.

The "Let's Meet at Sretenje" rally organized by students in the blockade in Kragujevac and attended by tens of thousands of people from all over Serbia was held on February 15th, and it was announced that the next one will be organized in Niš, on Saturday, March XNUMXst.

The Stojaković brothers are participating in student protests in Serbia, and came into the public spotlight when Belgrade's "Novosti" published photos of their Croatian passports in early January.

N1 wrote at the time that "Novosti" hid, that the Stojaković brothers signed themselves in Cyrillic and that they are of Serbian nationality, and that they have a Croatian passport based on the birth of their father, who is from Krajina and who fled to Serbia during Operation "Storm".

Students leading protests in Serbia are demanding that the authorities be held accountable for the accident in Novi Sad and insist that they are not calling for a change of government. They are blocking more than 60 universities in cities across Serbia. A number of high schools have joined them.

The students' demands were supported by their professors, educators, lawyers, actors, farmers, and other citizens.

The first demand of the students in the blockade is to publish complete documentation on the reconstruction of the Novi Sad Railway Station, in order to determine responsibility for the accident.

They also demand that the attackers of students at the protests that followed the accident in Novi Sad be punished and that proceedings against the arrested protesters be suspended.

The government led by the Serbian Progressive Party and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić claim that the students' demands have been met. The students in the blockade deny this.

Tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest at the call of the students in the blockade.