Serbian President and member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vučić said today that he supports the idea of the party's president Miloš Vučević to block the court in Novi Sad so that four activists of the party, suspected of beating several students, can be released from detention after four months.
"Now neither the police, nor they, nor anyone else will be able to get through to them until they make a decision to release these individuals, and then we will see what happens next," Vučić told Informer television, commenting on the fact that the Court of Appeal in Novi Sad, after several days of blockade by citizens and students, replaced the detention of three activists from the Movement of Free Citizens and STAV with house arrest, and returned the decision on detention for the remaining three activists to the first-instance body.
He said that this was a big challenge and that it showed "how much money was invested in the color revolution, in injustice and injustice", which is why he announced that changes to some laws and regulations would be necessary in the coming period, in order to "return law and justice to Serbia".
"They have failed, they can no longer do anything anywhere, except that the remnants, relics, helpers, instigators and executors of the ideas of the colored revolution will make such criminal moves, like this one today and like this one for four months, where they are keeping young men, boys, in custody for no reason. Enough is enough," Vučić said.
He added that, in the coming period, he will take measures in accordance with the demands of the authorities' meeting in Belgrade on April 12, saying that "he will not stop fighting until the demands are met."
"But not theirs, because they no longer exist - until the demands of the people of April 12th are met. And there is no alternative to that. No one will convince me of anything else. Their demands do not exist. Law and justice will return to Serbia. This is such violence and such savagery against justice, that I have no words," Vučić assessed.
Speaking about the Court of Appeal's decision to place PSG and STAV activists under house arrest, the Serbian President said that he "feels contempt for those who made such a decision", anger at the injustice, as well as hope "that it will force us to bravely face the consequences of the colored revolution, or rather the causes of the colored revolution".
"They could hardly wait to curry favor with the blockaders and make illegal decisions, decisions that are almost impossible in any legal system. There is no country in the world where those suspected or accused of committing the most serious crimes, such as attacking the constitutional order of a country, are released after such a short time to defend themselves from freedom. There is no such country," Vučić said.
According to him, no answer was received from the court and the prosecution about whether the detained activists allegedly planned to carry out a coup in Belgrade with the army.
"They spoke clearly about the plans, and we still haven't been told who the person from Belgrade University, whom Ms. Vasić mentioned, is who contacted certain members of the Army in terms of organizing a coup. Because when you use the army, it's not a coup, it's a coup," he added.
He said that these individuals have now been released because "the gang that gathered in front of the Novi Sad court violently demanded it."
"You are here, gentlemen, to protect the people from gangs, not to flatter gangs and hooligans. This time you have done the opposite of that," Vučić assessed.
Speaking about the detained SNS activists, he said that the four young men "did not want to carry out a coup, they did not invade anyone's property, they did not attack anyone anywhere," but rather that they were defending themselves and their party's premises.
"Those young men, neither guilty nor guilty, of course they made a mistake because they went to another street to deal with the attackers, who, by the way, lied that their jaw was injured from their blow with a baseball bat and I don't know what else. They lied about everything they said and no one was concerned about the fate of those boys and young men. They have been in custody for four months," Vučić added.
He also asked what they were doing in detention and why "the two hooligans and bandits who attacked them" could not be questioned for four months.
"They have been in custody for four months and I, as the President of the Republic, am not allowed to say anything, I am not allowed to pretend to fight for law and justice. You release terrorists and putschists after two months, and the guys who were just protecting their property, their estate, would not be questioned anywhere in the US, because they were protecting their own. They didn't touch anyone, they didn't attack anyone, they are still languishing in custody," Vučić said.
Vučić also took to Instagram.
"Freedom to the heroes! Nikola Blagojević, Danilo Rajičević, Stefan Kojović, Nemanja Despotović. Prison to the blockade terrorists," Vučić wrote on Instagram.
The president of the ruling SNS, Miloš Vučević, stated earlier today that he would call on members, supporters and citizens to blockade the court in Novi Sad, so that four SNS activists would be released.
Four SNS activists are in custody on suspicion of beating two students in Novi Sad, seriously injuring one of them, after which Vučević resigned as Prime Minister of Serbia on January 28th.
The call from Vučić and Vučević comes after several days of blockade of the Novi Sad court by citizens and students, who were protesting the extension of detention of activists from the Movement of Free Citizens and STAV.
Earlier today, the Court of Appeal replaced the detention of three activists with house arrest, while returning the detention decision for the remaining three activists to the first-instance body for a decision.
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