The Go-Change Movement announced today that the Second Basic State Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has assessed that there is no room for criminal prosecution regarding the death threats and physical attack on the movement's leader, Savo Manojlović, in the presence of his wife and then seven-month-old baby, although the official note stated that the death threat was made, the attack was carried out and that physical injuries were sustained.
For prosecutor Nebojša Stanković, who signed the decision, "the death threat and physical attack on Manojlović and his family are not a criminal offense because he successfully defended himself from the attacker," but rather qualified the event as a violation of public order, the movement stated.
As the movement specified, in the official note, the prosecution stated that the reported Strahinja Vujičić, "an SNS loyalist and government employee", threatened Manojlović: "You are a dead man, remember my name and surname, you are a dead man", after which he physically attacked him and struck him twice in the head with a closed fist, slightly injuring him, and that this happened in the presence of several citizens.
Prosecutor Stanković's "absurd" explanation states that the threats "were objectively not capable of endangering Manojlović's safety and instilling fear in him", because, despite the death threats, he confronted the attacker, knocked him to the ground and held him until the police arrived, which means that - "violence becomes a criminal offense only if it is successful", the movement pointed out.
The prosecutor also noted that Manojlović's wife "did not cry out, did not shout, did not call for help, did not run away from the scene and leave it, but rather managed to record the incident on her mobile phone."
"In other words, the state body estimates that if a witness manages to record the violence, it means that he was not scared enough, and the violence thus loses its significance," the movement emphasized.
The Move-Change Movement pointed out that environmental activist Petar Antonijević was criminally convicted for calling Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Đurić a traitor, which the court assessed as a threat to security.
Also, Antonijević was held in custody for more than four months, while Vujičić was not even detained for 48 hours "thanks to the political intervention carried out by the then-duty prosecutor Jelena Stojanović," the Move-Change movement announced.
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