# Police raid NPS offices on local election day

Category: Persecution  
Period: from 29 Mar 2026  
Outcome: No one investigated (as of 30 Mar 2026)  

On the evening of 29 March 2026, while votes were being counted in local elections, about ten inspectors from the Criminal Police Directorate raided the Belgrade offices of the People's Movement of Serbia with a search warrant over suspected violation of voting rights. Party officials say members were locked in a single room, and the police did not leave until after midnight. The operation was allegedly led by Branislav Milenković. The prosecutor's office says the search was lawful, while the party says the aim was to get into its phones.

## Election-night search

Inspectors from the Criminal Police Directorate, then headed by Marko Kričak, arrived at the NPS offices in Takovska Street at around 21h, and riot police soon followed. Party president Miroslav Aleksić says members were locked in a single room and asked to hand over their phones, after which the police searched jackets, rubbish bins and toilet cisterns.

The police left at around one in the morning. Accounts differ on what they took: Aleksić speaks of the party's phones and laptops, while vice-president Miloš Pavlović speaks of paperwork.

## What the prosecutor's office says

The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade said the search was carried out in accordance with the law and on the order of the duty pre-trial judge, as part of a pre-investigation proceeding over violation of voting rights and unauthorised collection of personal data. According to a report by Nova, the warrant was issued by Judge Teodora Avramović.

Aleksić says the warrant was valid for eight days, yet the police came precisely on election night, and that the violation of voting rights was merely a pretext. Pavlović believes the aim was to gain access to the party's political communications.

## Who led the operation

The operation by the Special Operations Department was allegedly led by its newly appointed head, Branislav Milenković, a former member of the JZO. Student Nikolina Sinđelić, who was on the premises, says she recognised him from the Government garage in August 2025, that he was the only one who addressed her by name, and that he said he would examine her laptop "with the greatest pleasure". That earlier incident is described in the affair Marko Kričak threatened a student with rape in the Government garage.

## Vučić's accusations and the NPS response

On election night, President Aleksandar Vučić said that party officials had phoned voters posing as people from the Office of the President and urged them not to vote for the SNS list. He said “all the phones have been tracked down” and that he believed they would all be arrested. Aleksić says the party has no knowledge of anyone sending such messages, and that it contacts its own members based on its voter records, with their consent.

## Participants

- [Branislav Milenković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/branislav-milenkovic): Allegedly led the inspectors' raid on the NPS premises on the night of the local elections and addressed one of the people there by name (responsible)
- [Criminal Police Directorate (UKP), Interior Ministry](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/ukp): Its inspectors allegedly raided the NPS premises on election night, shut members in one room and demanded their phones (responsible)
- [First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/prvo-ojt-beograd): Says the search of the NPS premises was carried out lawfully and under a court warrant, in pre-investigation proceedings over violation of voting rights (investigation and courts)
- [Teodora Avramović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/teodora-avramovic): Issued the warrant to search the NPS premises, on the basis of which UKP inspectors raided the party (investigation and courts)
- [Aleksandar Vučić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/aleksandar-vucic): Claimed on election night that NPS officials had phoned voters posing as people from the Office of the President and that they would all be arrested (commented on the case)
- [Miroslav Aleksić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/miroslav-aleksic): Says police officers shut him in a room with party members and that the violation of voting rights is merely a pretext for the search (harmed)
- [Miloš Pavlović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/milos-pavlovic): Says the police kept party members shut in and wanted their phones to gain access to their political communications (harmed)
- [People's Movement of Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/nps): The party whose premises the inspectors raided; it rejects accusations that its officials phoned voters under false pretences (harmed)

## Victims and others harmed

- [Nikolina Sinđelić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nikolina-sindjelic)

## Sources

- [Nova.rs: Vučić on the police raid on the People's Movement of Serbia's offices: “I believe they will arrest them all”](<https://nova.rs/vesti/politika/vucic-o-upadu-policije-u-prostorije-nps-verujem-da-ce-ih-sve-pohapsiti/>): 29 Mar 2026
- [Nova.rs: Who led the police raid on the People's Movement of Serbia's offices: He proved himself in Kričak's Facilities Protection Unit, then rose through the ranks](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/ko-je-predvodnik-policijskog-upada-u-prostorije-nps-dokazao-se-u-krickovoj-jzo-pa-napredovao-u-sluzbi/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [N1: “They opened toilet cisterns and pulled rubbish out of bins”: What the Criminal Police Directorate did at the People's Movement of Serbia's offices on local election night](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/narodni-pokret-srbije-miroslav-aleksic-aleksandar-vucic-izbori-upad-ukp/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Danas: Aleksić: Police entered our party over a “violation of the right to vote”](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/politika/aleksic-policija-usla-u-nasu-stranku-zbog-povrede-prava-na-glasanje/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Nova.rs: Prosecution speaks out on the police raid on the People's Movement of Serbia's offices](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/oglasilo-se-tuzilastvo-o-upadu-policije-u-stranacke-prostorije-nps/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [N1: Aleksić: Police are holding us in one room and searching our offices over a “violation of voting rights”](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/miroslav-aleksic-npr-pretres-prostorije/>): 29 Mar 2026
- [Insajder: Pavlović: Criminal Police Directorate (UKP) at the People's Movement of Serbia's Belgrade offices, party members locked in for more than 45 minutes](<https://insajder.net/prenosimo/pavlovic-ukp-u-beogradskim-prostorijama-nps-clanovi-stranke-zatvoreni-vise-od-45-minuta>): 29 Mar 2026
- [Danas: Miroslav Aleksić gives details of the police search of the party's offices](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/politika/miroslav-aleksic-izneo-detalje-o-policijskom-pretresu-stranackih-prostorija/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Vreme: Police leave People's Movement of Serbia premises only at one in the morning](<https://vreme.com/vesti/policija-tek-u-jedan-posle-ponoci-izasla-iz-prostorija-narodnog-pokreta-srbije/>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Nedeljnik: Police leave the People's Movement of Serbia's offices at 1 am: Equipment taken in an investigation seen as repression of the opposition](<https://www.nedeljnik.rs/drze-nas-zatvorene-policija-upala-u-narodni-pokret-srbije-objavio-poslanik/>): 29 Mar 2026
- [Nova.rs: “Their aim was to seize our phones to gain insight into our political communications”: Pavlović on the police raid on the People's Movement of Serbia's offices](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/cilj-im-je-bio-da-nam-zaplene-telefone-da-bi-imali-uvid-u-politicku-komunikaciju-pavlovic-o-upadu-policije-u-prostorije-nps>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Danas: Aleksić: Police raids on the People's Movement of Serbia and the Rectorate signal that the regime is moving to total repression](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/politika/aleksic-upadi-policije-u-nps-i-rektorat-poruka-da-rezim-krece-u-totalnu-represiju/>): 31 Mar 2026
- [Nova.rs: Aleksić: Not even under Milošević did police raid the offices of a parliamentary political organisation](<https://nova.rs/vesti/politika/aleksic-ni-u-vreme-milosevica-policija-nije-upadala-u-prostorije-parlamentarne-politicke-organizacije>): 30 Mar 2026
- [Nova.rs: “The most chilling moment was when I realised they were Kričak's men”: Nikolina Sinđelić on the Criminal Police Directorate's raid on the People's Movement of Serbia's offices](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/najjezivije-je-bilo-kada-sam-shvatila-da-su-to-krickovi-ljudi-nikolina-sindjelic-o-upadu-ukp-u-prostorije-narodnog-pokreta-srbije/>): 30 Mar 2026

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/upad-policije-u-nps-lokalni-izbori-2026  
As of: 6 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)