“As President Vučić said in New York, some in Serbia accuse us that the more we mention Kosovo, the farther we are from the EU, but the Government of Serbia and the team of the President of the Republic will not remain silent about the injustice that is happening to the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, and we will be there for Nikola and his family. We will seek justice,” said Ana Brnabić after visiting the Nedeljković family.
The Prime Minister pointed out that she came to give the family first of all human support, but also that she will do everything to get justice for Nikola.
“He was arrested on June 28 in Gazimestanand then sentenced to eight months in prison without any evidence, with some false testimonies, that he shouted some slogans that cause religious, national hatred and intolerance,” said Brnabić.
She added that she had come to draw attention to how the rule of law is implemented in Kosovo and Metohija, as Aljbin Kurti says, “a more democratic state than Serbia”.
She stated that the example of Nikola Nedeljkovic is just one in a series of examples of how, as she pointed out, there is neither the rule of law nor any kind of justice when it comes to Serbs.
“Nikola Nedeljović is a guy who is not a criminal, he is a socially responsible person, a humanitarian. What is even more interesting is that the citizen of Montenegro Risto Jovanović was arrested last year in a similar or almost identical way. Risto Jovanović was arrested on the report of the same policeman who arrested Nedeljković this year, and based on that same testimony, he was also convicted. It is obvious what this is about,” the Prime Minister pointed out.
She stated that since Kurti was in power in Pristina, the number of attacks on Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, on Serbian property, increased by 50 percent, and the number of incidents increased, so that last year ended with 128 incidents.
“So far, we have had close to 100 attacks on Serbs this year alone, and it goes unpunished,” said Brnabić.
She pointed out that the last major incident happened on September 12, when, as she says, an attempt was made to kill a 19-year-old Serbian young man, Nemanja Mitrović.
“We will see what the epilogue will be, and everything is happening in 2022, when Kurti abolished the right to vote for the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, a basic human right. This is the kind of democracy we are talking about,” said Brnabić.
She said that on Monday the defense lawyers will file a complaint for Nikola Nedeljkovic, and that she will use that day to once again address her EU partners on the matter.
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