Belgrade Law Faculty student Helena Strugar has been banned from entering Serbia, which, as she assessed in a statement to FoNet, continues her illegal pressure and persecution, N1 reports.
The media outlet states that Helena Strugar is a Serb from Montenegro who was informed on April 16 at the Dobrakovo border crossing that her name was in the system according to which she was banned from entering Serbia.
In a written statement by Helena Strugar and her family, it was stated that she was detained in the official premises for more than an hour on that occasion, with the explanation that they were awaiting further instructions from their superiors and that they did not know the legal basis for such a ban.
They believe that such abuse by those in charge is indicatively linked to the brutal attack by masked thugs on her colleagues on January 13, when she tried to protect them by standing between them. She was also injured on that occasion, receiving a strong punch, which resulted in her nail plate being torn off and causing profuse bleeding, according to N1.
According to Helena and her family, at that dramatic moment she managed to record the attacker's face on her phone, which served as key evidence for the prosecution in prosecuting the attackers.
According to her, after the attack, she was constantly pressured when giving her statement to the police – to the point that they tried to change her statement while typing it in order to change the undisputed facts. She prevented this by asking her to read the text of the statement before signing it.
Helena Strugar arrived in Serbia on February 7 at the invitation of the competent prosecutor's office to testify as a witness and injured party, which she did despite, as she stated, provocations and pressure from the defendants' lawyers to change her testimony.
They, she stated, published a lie that she and her sister were connected to a criminal clan and to people whom, she added, they had never met.
Helena Strugar stated that on April 22, she arrived at the same border crossing at the entrance to Serbia, and after an hour of waiting, she was handed a decision refusing entry to Serbia without any explanation, but rather a statement that referred to "the security of the Republic of Serbia and its citizens."
"We will certainly demand accountability from all those responsible who participated in this severe persecution and abuse," said Helena Strugar and her parents.
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