# Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Novi Sad

In 2020 it ordered journalist Ana Lalić held for 48 hours over an article about the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, calling the article „spreading panic and fake news“. Three weeks later it dropped the complaint without telling her why. It filed an indictment motion against four SNS activists who attacked students with clubs in Novi Sad, before Vučić pardoned them.

## Affairs

- [Arrest of Ana Lalić over an article on the Clinical Centre of Vojvodina](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/ana-lalic-hapsenje-2020): Over the article about the Clinical Centre, it ordered her held for 48 hours for “spreading panic”, then dismissed the criminal complaint
- [Police beat students outside the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/filozofski-novi-sad-2025): It did not investigate the allegations that CN gas was used, and instead referred the case for consideration as the offence of causing panic
- [Irregularities in the 2026 elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/izbori-oktobar-2026): It ordered the arrest of two suspects over death threats in Novo Naselje on election day; a search is under way for Matović
- [Attacks on journalists](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/napadi-na-novinare): It is conducting pre-investigation proceedings against an unknown perpetrator over threatening graffiti aimed at journalist Dinko Gruhonjić
- [Attack on students outside the SNS offices in Novi Sad](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/novi-sad-napad-na-studente): It sought detention because of the risk of witness tampering and filed an indictment for violent behaviour and grievous bodily harm
- [Vučić's pardons of 49 people before his resignation](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/pomilovanja-27-septembra-2026)
- [Pressure on bus operator Milomir Jaćimović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/progon-autoprevoznika-jacimovica): It sought detention in July 2025, and classified the 2026 burning of the bus as causing general danger
- [Srbijagas under Dušan Bajatović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/srbijagas-bajatovic): In 2025 it filed an indictment against Bajatović over a 2022 traffic accident in which a woman was seriously injured
- [Destruction of official records after the elections](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/unistavanje-dokumentacije-posle-izbora-2026): Acting on reports from citizens, it secured documents in several sacks that had been carried out of an institution

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/ojt-novi-sad  
As of: 9 Nov 2026  
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