Plainclothes police officers used the "wrench to the elbow" method against the technical editor of the Serbian weekly NIN, Vladimir Piacun., and whether there was excessive use of force will be determined by the investigation of the internal control sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia within eight days, which was ordered by the Minister of Internal Affairs Ivica Dacic, the leaders of the Serbian police said today.
"I will insist that everything be investigated to the end. Neither the police nor the media need this, and the police's interest is for cooperation with the media to be at the highest level. This may be a misunderstanding, an accident," Serbian police director Milorad Veljović said at the conference. journalists.
Veljović pointed out that as police director he has an obligation to protect police officers if they were working according to the law and that he will wait for the report of the internal control department, which included Dacic in that case.
Goran Milinković, deputy head of the law enforcement department in the Belgrade police, said that plainclothes policemen from the department for the suppression of juvenile delinquency
Veljović pointed out that as police director he has an obligation to protect police officers if they were working according to the law and that he will wait for the report of the internal control sector, which in that case involved Dacic
"Piacun parked his motorcycle in front of the building at 19 Žorža Klemansoa Street and then ran up to the vehicle in which the policemen were, kicked the vehicle, and then hit the policeman who was sitting in the passenger seat," Milinković said.
He added that the inspector who was driving the car then got out of the car, took out his badge and gun, and that Piacun then started to run away.
According to Milinković, the police officers arrived at Piacuna and used the "physical means of forcing the key to the elbow" and led Piacuna into the vehicle, but did not use handcuffs because the technical editor of NIN did not resist.
At the conference, a video from a security camera from the building in Žorža Clemanceo Street, which houses the editorial offices of NIN and the daily newspapers Blic, Alo and 24 sata, was shown, but it does not clearly show what was happening because the camera was too far from the action.
When NIN editor-in-chief Nebojša Spajić asked whether the police were defending their colleague or wanted to establish the facts, Veljović replied that he would not ask anyone to protect himself.
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Veljović did not explain why the report states that Bojović and Stevanović identified themselves before using force, even though the witnesses claim the opposite, nor why the report does not state that plainclothes policemen chased away the police patrol from the scene, as the witnesses claim.
Colleagues presented their views in the report, Veljović said about the report read by Milinković.
Milinković and Veljović did not answer the question why journalists were shown photos of penknives found with Piacun or whether it was done just to make Piacun laugh.
"They were shown because we found blades at Piacun, five and eight centimeters long," said Milinković nonchalantly.
He did not explain why the report stated that Bojović and Stevanović had identified themselves before using the "key to the elbow" method, although the witnesses claim the opposite, and he did not explain why the report he read did not state that plainclothes police officers drove away from the scene of the police patrol, as the witnesses claim.
Veljović and Milinković did not specifically answer why the police did not order a 48-hour detention for their colleagues Bojović and Stevanović, but for Piacun, who is suspected of violent behavior.
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