Vučić: The prosecution was in a hurry, politics must not interfere, I do not think that Vesić is guilty

The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, said today that due to the pressure of the domestic public, through various protests, the prosecutor's office was in a hurry to finish the investigation into the fall of the canopy at the railway station in Novi Sad, which killed 15 people and seriously injured two others.

"Maybe they did everything right, so I won't go into that. But, let's say in America, where the bridge in Maryland collapsed and there were six or eight dead, nine months passed without the investigation being completed. Here the investigation is closed two days ago, only a month and a half later," Vučić told a television station in Serbia.

According to him, in the most developed countries of the world, the investigation has not been completed for some six years, because these are very difficult issues.

"As a state, you have to make sure that justice is served, and on the other hand, make sure that those who are not guilty are not convicted due to pressure," said Vučić.

As he added, "it is now something in which you have to let the Serbian judiciary be completely free to make decisions, so that politics does not interfere in any way," said Vučić.

"But I'm also speaking in people's heads. Do I really think that Goran Vesić is guilty intimately, my friend, Jovana Tanasković or Dimovski, I'm almost sure, or do I think so - no, but I'm not the one, it's the judiciary. Are they because of me even less comrades, no they are not. Do I consider them murderers - I do not consider them murderers," said Vučić.