Category: Violence against citizens
Period: from 3 Jul 2025
Outcome: Under investigation (as of 17 Jun 2026)
On the night of 2 to 3 July 2025, police broke up a blockade of an intersection in front of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade and allegedly beat and tied up students who had retreated into the building; the Interior Ministry says 23 people were detained. Among those detained was professor Biljana Stojković, and four students were taken to the Military Medical Academy (VMA). The prosecution opened a case, but the chief prosecutor ordered a deferral of prosecution for the only identified policewoman, and members of the JZO were reportedly arrested on 4 November 2026.
Students were blocking the intersection by the Faculty of Law when police arrived in vehicles. Radio Free Europe reports that the Gendarmerie moved in and that its members came right up to the faculty doors. They allegedly dragged out, beat and tied up students who had retreated into the building.
The Interior Ministry said 23 people were detained and denied that police entered the faculty, while students say otherwise. Radar reports that between 30 and 40 students were detained.
Among those detained was professor Biljana Stojković, who was later released; she told Radar that she had put her arms around several students and that one policewoman was especially aggressive. Four students were taken to the Military Medical Academy (VMA), and lawyer Luka Vodinelić says he was knocked down by a plainclothes police officer and has fractures.
Retired Supreme Court judge Radmila Dragičević Dičić was also allegedly attacked, and according to ANEM, Radar journalist Vuk Cvijić was struck with a shield and an elbow while officers tried to wrest his phone from him.
More than 30 Faculty of Law teaching staff condemned the violence, and more than 40 professors filed a criminal complaint against unidentified members of the Gendarmerie, stating that at least 43 gendarmes set upon at least 85 citizens.
The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office opened a case on a complaint by the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, ordered the Interior Ministry to identify the officers, and said it would join the professors' complaint to the case.
Nova.rs published footage of plain-clothes officers dragging a female student by her hair, probably to unlock her phone. Kreni-promeni named Tanja Drobnjak and filed a criminal complaint against her.
The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office said that on 5 June 2026 chief prosecutor Ljubivoje Đorđević issued an instruction to defer criminal prosecution in exchange for a payment of at least 400,000 dinars, and that the objection of the case prosecutor was rejected on 17 June. The case is described in a separate affair.
Kreni-promeni claims that Mirko Mijučić and Radoslav Repac commanded the operation, and names Igor Žmirić and Dejan Frković among those responsible. Nova.rs reportedly writes that Žmirić was present and did not try to stop the hair-pulling, and that the operation was led by Marko Kričak.
None of them has been officially charged over the events at the faculty.
According to unofficial information from the Nova.rs portal, inspectors from the Internal Control Sector, acting on the orders of the First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, arrested at least five members of the JZO on 4 November 2026 who took part in the operation at the Faculty of Law, and several more are being sought. The same portal reports that the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office had previously issued a binding instruction to proceed with the cases involving students.
The official statements from the prosecution and the court of 5 and 6 November concern the abuse in the government garage in August 2025, not this night.