Đilas lashed out at a student from Montenegro who was beaten by communal police

The Mayor of Belgrade, Dragan Đilas, said that any municipal police officer who overuses the force and breaks the law will be severely punished and pointed out that all passengers must pay for tickets in public city transport.

"Of course I condemn when a communal policeman repeatedly hits a passenger on the bus, but of course I also condemn when the passenger won't get off the bus and first throws the controller out the door, and gives our communal policeman a Montenegrin passport with an address in Berane and says "write to me punishment for Berane", Đilas told reporters in the Belgrade Assembly, after receiving a delegation from Germany.

Đilas pointed out that every citizen of Belgrade is "very important" to Belgrade.

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"Great students like that gentleman, who is 31 years old and studying, are very important to us, but we could bear his loss and have him return to Berane and ride there for free. Those who come to Belgrade will ride with a paid ticket. What would happen to him in Paris, Berlin or anywhere if he gave his passport and said 'send me a ticket to Berane'. I think he would spend some time in prison, and then with the help of the state he would return to Berane," said Đilas. .

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Na Youtube.com On September 18, a video from a city bus was published showing how a municipal police officer punched a passenger without a ticket who did not want to get off the bus three times in the stomach.

The beaten passenger, Dražen Cimbaljević, a citizen of Montenegro, told reporters at the time that he had no credit on the Bus plus card and that he was caught by the control, and that the communal police officers then asked him to get off the bus, not accepting his offer to take his identity card and write a sentence.

Đilas stated that the number of public transport vehicles in Belgrade will be reduced by a third if more than a third of the people do not pay the ticket, because there is no city in the world that can withstand something like that.

"The City of Belgrade only provides subsidies higher for public city transport than for kindergartens, because 60 million euros are allocated annually from the budget for kindergartens so that citizens pay a price that is far from the market price, while more than 100 million euros are allocated for transport, and these are not funds that cover losses in the Belgrade City Transport Company, but funds that enable the ticket to be the cheapest in all of Central Europe," said Đilas.

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