Feđa Štukan was detained at the airport in Belgrade

Actor and writer Feđa Štukan, who was supposed to be a guest at the Krokodil festival, was detained today at "Nikola Tesla" airport in Belgrade.

This was confirmed for nova.rs by his lawyers Sead Spahović and Ahmed Delimeđac.

Štukan told N1 that he was detained at the Belgrade airport after passport control and that something was found on his computer.

"They took me out of line after passport control. They found something in the computer. Then the woman left with the passport... I'm waiting for them to tell me what's going on, I have no idea what's going on," Štukan said.

He added that he was told that he was not released to Serbia due to the existence of a security risk.

"They told me that there is a negative assessment of the security risk. I am now here at the airport in Belgrade and I will be there until the morning when I take the first flight back to Sarajevo," Štukan added.

Štukan's lawyer Sead Spahović said that the ban on his entry into Serbia seems to be a secret.

"Because the people who invited him to the literary evening did not know about it. However, it is a cultural institution, and not the Serbian police, which forbade him to enter. Therefore, he was not detained, he was only detained," said Spahović, stating that this ban began to be mentioned after Štukan appeared at opposition protests in Serbia.

Krokodil wrote on Instagram that Štukan will join the festival program online from the airport tonight.

"In the morning, he will be deported back to Bosnia and Herzegovina because the local authorities do not allow him to enter Serbia," it was stated on the Krokodil website.

In mid-June last year, the actor from Bosnia and Herzegovina was detained at the border crossing between BiH and Serbia for several hours. It was right after he supported the "Serbia against violence" protests, and then attended the protest march in Belgrade.

Soon the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić called him a "criminal", and the daily "Politika" - a "Muslim extremist", reminds Nova.rs.

Štukan told N1 at the end of January this year that he never officially learned anything about the ban on entering Serbia.

"Later, I learned from Vučić's cabinet that only if the Serbian parliament votes against the decision on my entry ban, that decision will be repealed. I know, even if the government changes, that I will not be an item on the agenda at the session, so this measure probably for life," Štukan said at the time.