Serbia detains police officers over alleged use of force against protesters
The Interior Ministry said the suspects served in an elite unit and allegedly tortured and intimidated detainees during anti-corruption protests.
- On Wednesday, Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against anti-corruption protesters in Belgrade, marking the first major charges linked to protest violence.
- Massive anti-corruption protests swept Serbia during 2025 and 2026 after a concrete canopy collapsed at a Novi Sad railway station on November 1, 2024, killing 16 people.
- The Interior Ministry stated suspects from an elite unit "inflicted great pain and severe suffering" on detainees in a government compound garage on August 14–15, 2025, to obtain confessions.
- Widespread unrest led to the ouster of the Serbian Progressive Party in an October 25 snap parliamentary election, with the leaderless Student List securing a historic victory.
- Activists and rights watchdogs have long accused former President Aleksandar Vucic of corruption and political violence, though Vucic and his allies deny all allegations of wrongdoing.
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Serbia detains police officers over alleged use of force against protesters
Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer on Wednesday for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during anti-corruption protests last year in Belgrade, the country's Interior Ministry said.
The facts date back to August 2025, in the garage of a Serbian government building in Belgrade.
Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Department of Internal Control, today, by order of the public prosecutor of the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, issued a decision to detain for up to 48 hours the following police officers of the MUP of the Republic of Serbia: Igor Žmirić (1979), B. J. (1978), D. V. (1978), J. O. (1983), V. L. (1978), N. D. (1976), N. F. (1973), Z. V. (1972), and citizen M. V. (1978), who at the ti…
Eight active police officers and one former officer were arrested today in Serbia for alleged attacks on students during last year's demonstrations, after the victory of the leaders of the student movement in the last elections.
The arrests come as Serbia faces the fallout from anti-corruption protests, with the interior ministry making serious allegations of torture and intimidation of those detained.
On August 14/15, 2025, in the garage of the Government of the Republic of Serbia building in Nemanjina Street, the suspects inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a large number of injured persons, with the aim of obtaining information from them and intimidating and illegally punishing them. Members of the Ministry... Read More › The article Arrested Commander of the Serbian Anti-Terrorism Police Force Igor Žmirić and eight other current a…
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