Prosecutors received pressure calls from the Security-Information Agency before the repeated voting in the four election seats for members of the High Council of Prosecutors, so they ended up on the already long list of numbers that the BIA was dialing in the past period.
Prosecutors have been under pressure for weeks due to repeated voting for public prosecutors who will be members of the new convocation High Prosecutorial Council (VST).
According to them, the pressures they suffer did not come only from the prosecutor’s office, but the security structures intervened in everything, from which they stand out. Security and Information Agency.
Ahead of repeated elections in four polling stations, numerous prosecutors are under tremendous pressure to vote for regime candidates, while individuals have been contacted by the BIA.
“Colleagues acting in the prosecutions under the territorial jurisdiction of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Kragujevac, primarily senior public prosecutors, were exposed to the most drastic pressures. The goal is for candidate Nikola Uskoković, who is considered Nenad Stefanović’s man, to overtake Boris Majlat, who, despite being a member of Zagorka Dolovac, enjoys the trust of those colleagues who are directly against her,” a well-informed source told Nova.
These very prosecutors were added to the already long list of people contacted by this agency in the past period, especially in the past year and a half. As they discovered earlier, students, some veterans of the Serbian Army, parents of those who died under the canopy, and many others also received calls.
Long list
First on the BIA directory list are students and activists who are fighting the regime in the streets. For the past year and a half, students have received special treatment from the officers of the Security Information Agency.
Thus, more than 10 students in the blockade received a phone call from the BIA to come for a “friendly and informal” conversation regarding the protest that was announced on the day of the military parade on September 20.
One activist of the “Krokodil” Association, as BIRN previously revealed, was invited to an interview at the BIA, and when he got there, he was asked to leave his phone on a chair in front of the office. After the meeting, he noticed that a notification appeared on his phone that all his contacts had been exported.
An independent journalist from Dimitrovgrad, Slaviša Milanov, also received an invitation to come to the police station, who then met at the police station with persons who introduced themselves as police officers, but showed official identification cards of the BIA.
Since that meeting, which Milanov assessed as suspicious, he noticed the unusual behavior of his phone, after which, by checking through the stay free application, he established that his mobile phone had been tampered with while he was in the police.
War veterans of the Serbian Army
The list of those contacted by the BIA for a “friendly conversation” also includes war veterans of the Serbian Armed Forces, and that was on the eve of the Vidovdan protest.
“They asked who is going, how many people are going, what we are carrying, what are the plans, who is coordinating it. They told everyone some of their alleged estimates, how incidents and riots are expected from the “friendly advice” not to go to Belgrade on Saturday,” said one of the veterans earlier.
In some places, people were invited to come to the premises of the local BIA branch, and somewhere operatives scheduled interviews with veterans in catering facilities.
Special attention for Hrka
Dijana Hrka, the mother of Stefan Hrka, one of the 16 victims of the canopy fall, spoke several times in her public speeches about how she is constantly being followed and called.
Hrka is the only mother who came forward publicly and actively participated in the fight for justice side by side with students, and then citizens, on the streets throughout Serbia.
According to her, members of the BIA called Hrka the day before the anniversary of the fall of the canopy, just like the veterans.
Hrka said that she told the BIA that she is not a terrorist and that she came to Novi Sad to pay her respects to her son and all the other victims of the canopy fall.
Source: Vreme
