Pescanik columnist Dejan Ilic was released by the police on Thursday evening after being questioned, the Pescanik portal and Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) said.
“Following interrogation in the New Belgrade police station in the presence of a prosecutor and lawyer, the detention measure against Dejan Ilic was revoked,” a MUP press release said adding that he was summoned to the station, ordered into detention by the prosecution on suspicion of causing panic during a live appearance on N1 and Nova S TVs. “He was released after interrogation under a decision by the prosecutor and criminal charges for causing panic and unrest will be filed against him,” the press release said.
A Pescanik X post simply said that Ilic had been released.
Ilic told the FoNet news agency after his release that “only a moron could believe that I caused panic”. He said he would not change a single word of what he said on live TV. “Nothing will change, I’m going on as I did so far,” he said and added that he was treated well in detention.
Ilic said in a live appearance on Nov S on March 29: “You can choose – either open the door to these people, and the opening of the door is a transitional government, or you reconcile yourself to blood on the streets, the loss of I don’t know how many lives to get rid of them”.
Source: N1
