Borko Stefanović (SSP): Charter flight to Tivat with criminals - a scandal and disgrace for Serbia

Deputy President of the Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) Borko Stefanović assessed that the screening and detention before entering the country of 90 people who arrived from Belgrade to Tivat on a charter flight this morning is "a scandal and a disgrace for Serbia", as well as "an indicator of the non-existent progressive European path and the destruction of all stability in Serbia and the region".

Stefanović added in a written statement that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, who he claims organized the disputed charter flight, must explain to citizens who paid for the trip and how much, who invited people with criminal records to go as Vučić's advance guard to Montenegro, whether they were armed, and whether he remembers his words from ten days ago that there cannot be criminals in the police force.

"Vučić is used to being arrogant even though he knows how his political father and eternal inspiration, (Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav) Šešelj, was taken out of Montenegro in a tent wing... It seems that Aleksandar Vučić does not understand that he cannot behave abroad as he does at home, where under the SNS government it is no longer known who is a policeman and who is a criminal," Stefanović said.

Montenegrin police previously announced that they were checking 90 people who arrived on a charter flight from Belgrade to Tivat, and Podgorica media reported that some of them were registered as persons of interest for security reasons, and that they would be returned from Tivat to Belgrade on the first flight.

Some media outlets, citing data from the Police Directorate, state that the individuals on the detained flight, who mostly have criminal records, were tasked with informally securing the stay of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tivat.