Category: Above the law
Period: 18 Jul 2013 – 24 Jul 2021
Outcome: Guilty verdict (as of 24 Jul 2021)
On 18 July 2013, Aleksandar Mitrović, son of TV Pink owner Željko Mitrović, hit seventeen-year-old Andrea Bojanić at a pedestrian crossing in Belgrade with an SUV owned by Pink and fled the scene; she died. The proceedings dragged on for eight years, and in the meantime the statute of limitations ran out on the charge of failing to provide assistance. In 2021 the Court of Appeal sentenced him to one year of house arrest and a two-year driving ban, which part of the public saw as a lenient sentence owed to the family background of the man charged; Mitrović and his father say otherwise.
On 18 July 2013, Aleksandar Mitrović, son of TV Pink owner Željko Mitrović, hit seventeen-year-old Andrea Bojanić at a pedestrian crossing on Ustanička Street in Belgrade with an SUV owned by Pink and fled the scene; she died.
His father brought him to the police about two hours later. He spent 77 days in custody.
The proceedings against Mitrović lasted eight years: the trial did not begin until 2015, expert examinations were repeated, and the statute of limitations on failing to provide assistance ran out in 2019.
The First Basic Court twice sentenced him to house arrest. In 2021 the Court of Appeal increased the sentence to one year of house arrest and a two-year driving ban, because he had been driving well over the speed limit and had not provided assistance.
Whether Mitrović ran a red light was disputed. Part of the public and the media saw the lenient sentence as a result of the family background of the man charged; Mitrović and his father Željko Mitrović say otherwise, while the father of Andrea Bojanić called the verdict politically motivated.
No source was found on whether or how the sentence was served.